Show HN: Instagram-scraper – Scrape instagram photos by tags, without API

Re:Show HN: Instagram-scraper – Scrape instagram photos by t... by dmitriid on Sunday June 24, 2018 @03:50AM (#17385488)

IMO scraping like this is shady at best.

That said, however, there's no straightforward way to work with Instagram. It's original APIs are both limited and locked down. The new Facebookified APIs are limited and next to impossible to work with (they are geared exclusively to ads/marketing). So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In a side project I use a library that effectively reverse-engineers Instagram's private API, pretends it's a user using a browser etc.

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Re:Show HN: Instagram-scraper – Scrape instagram photos by t... by lucasverra on Sunday June 24, 2018 @08:38AM (#17386316)

can you provide a link or source for that ? TY

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Re:Show HN: Instagram-scraper – Scrape instagram photos by t... by dmitriid on Sunday June 24, 2018 @11:04AM (#17386804)

I’m using this one: https://github.com/ping/instagram_private_api

If you search for Instagram Private API, you’ll find implementations for almost any programming language (with aforementioned PHP being the first, probably)

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Re:Show HN: Instagram-scraper – Scrape instagram photos by t... by girvo on Sunday June 24, 2018 @10:06AM (#17386597)

The best one I’ve used is in PHP. That might help your search; it’s late and I’m on my mobile so I can’t help with a proper link. It’s been a couple years

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