Read Instagram in python with Instaloader

Of many instagram scraping tools in the market, Instaloader is one of the coolest open source project out there. It’s simple to use.

Analyzing the social media platforms of your own companies and competitors in the digital space is gaining popularity every passing day.

In this blog, we can learn how to find the following information using just the username:

1. The number of followers i.e. followers_count
2. The number of posts i.e. posts_count
3. The Instagram User ID
4. To check if the profile is verified (the blue tick)

Here in the python file, the following public instagram accounts are used:

1. Daurcomm
2. Radioquam
3. React.please
4. Thevirtualnetwork
5. Aahatadotcom
6. Daur_ed

Check the above accounts to verify if the code indicates the actual value.

For code implementation, check out:

Piyush-Kulkarni/Instaloader-flask

The file profile_data.py is supposed to have an output as shown in the screenshot below:

Note: This blog is part of series of exploration of Instagram scraping & learning to use FLASK to showcase the real time data. Stay tuned for more.

Writers- Piyush Kulkarni, Vaani Bansal.