InstaScraper

Scrapes Instagram

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'insta_scraper'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install insta_scraper

Usage

Subclasses of InstaScraper::HTML are scraping html endpoints. Subclasses of InstaScraper::JSON are scraping json endpoints.

• InstaScraper::HTML::Account

account = InstaScraper::HTML::Account.new('barna.kovacs.codes')

account.data #=> #<Hashie::Mash...
account.data.deep_find('followed_by').fetch('count') #=> 4

• InstaScraper::HTML::Media

media = InstaScraper::HTML::Media.new('BGFVAPPIaBQ')

media.data #=> #<Hashie::Mash...
media.data.deep_find('comments').fetch('count') #=> 1892

• InstaScraper::JSON::Account

account = InstaScraper::JSON::Account.new('barna.kovacs.codes')

account.data #=> #<Hashie::Mash...
account.data.deep_find('followed_by').fetch('count') #=> 4

• InstaScraper::JSON::Media

media = InstaScraper::JSON::Media.new('BGFVAPPIaBQ')

media.data #=> #<Hashie::Mash...
media.data.deep_find('comments').fetch('count') #=> 1892

• InstaScraper::JSON::AccountMedia

account_media = InstaScraper::JSON::AccountMedia.new('barna.kovacs.codes')

account_media.data #=> #<Hashie::Mash...
account_media.data.fetch('items') #=> [...]

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/preciz/insta_scraper.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.