paquette-codes / instagram-scraper

Scraper to get the basic infos from an instagram account

instagram-scraper v1.0 (2024, php 8.0+)

Scraper to get the basic infos from

What it does:

Get the webpage of an instagram account, no login required and retrieve thoses basic values and return it in an array key/pair value:

• Current date
• Uri of the instagram account
• Title
• Handler
• Followers
• Following
• Nb posts

How to use:

1. Just enter the account name in $account variable and run the script.
2. The first time, it will scrap the url and return the basic infos and save a cachefile of the account page.
3. Until the cachefile of the account is present, all subsequents run will read the cachefile instead.
4. it will return a message from where the script toke the infos and an array of the key/value pair.

Example:

use app\instagramScraper;
use Tracy\Debugger;

require_once("vendor/autoload.php");
require_once("instagramScraper.php");

$account = "feliciaday"; //-- ex: feliciaday -> https://instagram.com/feliciaday

try {
	$scraper = new instagramScraper($account);
	dump($scraper->getDatas(TRUE)); //-- when set to TRUE, display the debugs message/values

} catch (Exception $e) {
	die("<strong style='color:red'>ERROR</strong> : " . $e->getMessage());
}

getDatas() will return an array like this:

'date' => '2024-01-03 15:38:31'
'uri' => 'https://www.instagram.com/feliciaday/'
'title' => 'Felicia Day'
'handle' => '@feliciaday'
'followers' => '2M'
'following' => '288'
'nbposts' => '1,572'

Todo:

1. Flush the cache of the account page if older that x seconds.