IG Posts Scraper
Scrape first 12 posts of a public Instagram account; be it images, videos, IGTV or Carousel.
Downloads all posts to a folder named post
in a file named after the account owner.
View the sample output in the img
folder which uses Ryan Reynolds' account.
Start with installing the packages needed as listed in req.txt
file.
pip install -r req.txt
You will also need a ChromeDriver tool, which is included in the folder ./chromedriver/
.
Just be sure that the driver corresponds to your Google Chrome's version, otherwise it won't work.
The given ChromeDriver (
chromedriver.exe
) is for Google Chrome version 86, 87 and 90.
Other browsers have their own driver.
Happy scraping!