Instaphyte

Fast and simple Instagram hashtag scraper.

For a more powerful scraper, try Instamancer

Install

From this repository

git clone https://github.com/scriptsmith/instaphyte.git
cd instaphyte
pip3 install -e .

From PIP

pip install instaphyte

Usage

Command Line

$ instaphyte
usage: instaphyte [-h] [--count COUNT] [--download] [--silent]
[--waitDownload] [--filename FILENAME]
[--filetype {csv,json,both}] [--downdir DOWNDIR]
{hashtag,location} id
Scrape Instagram hashtag and location feeds
positional arguments:
{hashtag,location} The type of feed to scrape posts from
id The id of the feed to scrape posts from
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--count COUNT, -c COUNT
Number for posts to download. 0 to download all
--download, -d Save images from posts
--silent Disable progress output
--waitDownload, -w Only download media once scraping is finished
--filename FILENAME, --file FILENAME, -f FILENAME
Name of the output file
--filetype {csv,json,both}, --type {csv,json,both}, -t {csv,json,both}
Type of output file
--downdir DOWNDIR Directory to save media

Example:

instaphyte hashtag selfie --count=1000 -d

Module

Example:

frominstaphyteimportInstagramapi=Instagram()
# Get 1000 posts from #selfieforpostinapi.hashtag("selfie", 1000):
print(post)
# Get all posts tagged as being in Londonforpostinapi.location("213385402"):
print(post)