scrape-instagram-data
v1.2.0
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A CLI tool that downloads data and photos for an Instagram user.
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Scrape Instagram data
A CLI tool that downloads data and photos for an Instagram user.
Usage
- Install it with:
npm i -g scrape-instagram-data
. - You can then run it with:
scrape -u ig_username
. - For more options type:
scrape --help
or answer the questions.
It creates a folder data/ig_username/
that contains:
- A
posts.json
file with the post data. - A
user-data.json
file with the user data. - An
images
folder with the images.
Disclaimers
- This tool violates the Instagram terms of use, and you may not be able to create new accounts from your current IP.
- The script may hang at the last few posts. You can either wait to finish/timeout, or you can cancel it and download again. It will download and overwrite the 2 JSON files but it won't download the images again—only those that failed.
TODO but probably won't happen
- [ ] More scraping for video/gallery types—available types: GraphImage, GraphVideo, or GraphSidecar. The data don't provide links for gallery images and videos; we'll have to use a different API.