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IG followers Scrapper - harison - Mar 27, 2016
I really want to make a python script that will scrape Instagram followers and store them in .txt file.
The problem is I don't know where to begin. Since you can now check the followers/followings of a user in a browser I'm thinking this is going to fall under web scrapping or I have to resort to the Instagram API?.
Haven't done web scrapping or api programming before but I know the basics of the Python language really well I just need to know where to start and I will take it from there.
* - EwilDave - Mar 27, 2016
Probably start here:
python-instagram
This will require you to install python-instagram... like so:
PHP Code
<?php
pip install python-instagram
Afterwards, the documentations is linked on the github page above!
Hope I helped!
- Ewil
* - harison - Mar 27, 2016
(Mar 27, 2016 08:21 AM)EwilDave Wrote: Probably start here:
python-instagram
This will require you to install python-instagram... like so:
PHP Code
<?php
pip install python-instagram
Afterwards, the documentations is linked on the github page above!
Hope I helped!
- Ewil
That means I have to go with Instagram API.
I can't even get the example code to work
PHP Code
<?php
from instagram.client import InstagramAPI
api = InstagramAPI(client_id='YOUR_CLIENT_ID', client_secret='YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET')
popular_media = api.media_popular(count=20)
for media in popular_media:
print media.images['standard_resolution'].url
What I did?
I Registered a new client at https://www.instagram.com/developer
Replaced the client_id and client_secret with my client info and i get this error message
PHP Code
<?php
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\AutoPy\test.py", line 7, in <module>
popular_media = api.media_popular(count=20)
File "H:\Python27\lib\site-packages\instagram\bind.py", line 197, in _call
return method.execute()
File "H:\Python27\lib\site-packages\instagram\bind.py", line 189, in execute
content, next = self._do_api_request(url, method, body, headers)
File "H:\Python27\lib\site-packages\instagram\bind.py", line 131, in _do_api_request
raise InstagramClientError('Unable to parse response, not valid JSON.', status_code=response['status'])
InstagramClientError: (404) Unable to parse response, not valid JSON.