SavosRU / insta-face-scraper

Scrapes instagram based on multiple profiles, creates folders of each persons face recognized so can be used for training models

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Insta Face Extractor

This is a Python script that allows you to extract faces from insta posts.

Features

• Downloads X amount of photos from X amount of instagram profiles
• Extracts faces from the downloaded photos
• Saves the extracted faces to disk separated by each person detected
• Allows login auth to access private instagram profiles that you follow also

Installation

1. Clone this repository or download the ZIP file and extract the contents.
2. Install the required dependencies by running pip install -r requirements.txt in the root directory of the project.

Usage

1. Open a terminal or command prompt and navigate to the root directory of the project.

2. If you want to also add username/password, modify line 21 by replacing None with your username/pass as follows: def download_images(username: str, max_images: int = 50, ig_username: str = None, ig_password: str = None): def download_images(username: str, max_images: int = 50, ig_username: str = "myusernamehere", ig_password: str = "mypasswordhere"):

3. Run the command python hassan-insta.py to launch the script.

4. Enter the username of the instagram profile or else a file path to a text file that contains multiple usersnames, one per each line.

5. The script will download the photos to the max amount you set and extract the faces. The extracted faces will be saved in the faces directory.

If you get a build error when installing requirements, you may need the Visual Studio Build tools c++ workload

Download build tools: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

Then in the same folder where your EXE is, run this command:

.\vs_BuildTools.exe --quiet --wait --norestart --nocache --installPath C:\BuildTools --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.19041

or

vs_BuildTools.exe --quiet --wait --norestart --nocache --installPath C:\BuildTools --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.19041

Leave it running and you can see in your C:\BuildTools that new folders are being added. When it's finished, restart the PC and your package should install correctly

You need to have CMake and Visual Studio (with C++ tools) installed.

Here are the general steps:

Install CMake. Install Visual Studio. During the installation, make sure to select "Desktop development with C++" in the Workloads tab. This will install the necessary C++ tools. After these are installed, you should be able to run pip install dlib in your command prompt.

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