Instagram Image Scraper in 130 LOC

An open source Instagram scraper

Running locally

1. Clone the repo, rename .example.env to .env, and replace your IG username and password
2. Download ChromeDriver and add it to your PATH
3. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install dependencies
4. Run python main.py to run the scraper

How it works

1. The scraper logs into your Instagram account
2. It navigates to the profile page of the user you want to scrape
3. Get the first 12 images and download them to a folder called assets
4. Each image has a unique ID, which can be used to navigate to the post page
5. Finally, create a data.json file with info about the instagram account scraped