[harison]

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]

Probably start here:

python-instagram

This will require you to install python-instagram... like so:

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<?php 
pip install python-instagram 


Afterwards, the documentations is linked on the github page above!

Hope I helped!

- Ewil

[harison]

Probably start here:

python-instagram

This will require you to install python-instagram... like so:

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<?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

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<?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

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<?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.