Fetch data from any public Instagram profile

First of all, I want to say that this project helped me learn a lot of things about web scraping and many python libraries (some of them aren't used)

Now what this does is, it downloads all the posts(including videos) of any PUBLIC instagram account and save it in your current working directory. And it also shows the bar graph (likes of each post) from older to newer posts.

When I started this project, I googled a lot of things(don't remember) and visited a lot of blogs. Thanks, everyone :) But there is one blog that tells exactly how to scrape the AJAX part or infinite scrolling of Instagram account.

Infinite Scrolling - https://www.diggernaut.com/blog/how-to-scrape-pages-infinite-scroll-extracting-data-from-instagram/#comment-157

I recommend visiting this blog and google the term that you don't understand from the blog (like XHR and many more).

And one final advice - Go through the requests library if you are programming with python.

Requests Package - http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/

And if you are interested in plotting graph in python:

Matplotlib - https://matplotlib.org/tutorials/introductory/sample_plots.html

Good Luck!

Python 3

pip(Python Package Index) :

$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip

requests package :

$ sudo pip3 install requests

lxml package :

$ sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-dev

$ pip3 install lxml

matplotlib package :

$ sudo pip3 install matplotlib

wget package :

$ sudo pip3 install wget

Run driver.py