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The Instaloader module is a Python package having great functionalities to scrap instagram, it's functions can be used as command-line utility. The Instaloader key is used to download:
The instaloader module can be used to download everything of profile/Instagram user, you need to interrupt by CONTROL+C to kill the process. However, for downloading files of a private account, you must log in, there is no compulsion for a public account. Also, comments are in json file which is zipped as a folder.
pip install instaloader
instaloader geeks_for_geeks
On using this command your program will download everything about profiles. For public account, it will download stories, post, highlights news. For private, it only downloads profile photo and other public information about profile.
Output:
instaloader --highlights geeks_for_geeks
Output:
The above command downloads public highlights of a particular profile
instaloader "#hashtag" coding_memes
Output:
The above command downloads posts having a given Hashtag.
instaloader --igtv geeks_for_geeks
Output:
The above command is used to download videos of a particular profile on instagram in .mp4 format.
It returns the number of accounts following the given account
Output:
It returns the number of accounts followed by given account
Output:
It returns the total number of posts
Output:
It returns the total number of igtv posts
Output:
8
It tells whether account is private or not
Output:
False
It returns the description/ bio of the account
Output:
It returns the link to the profile picture of the account
Output:
It returns the external url (if any)
Output:
It tells whether the account is a business account or not
Output:
True
It returns the type of business account is associated with
Output:
NOTE : Profile class objects have many more properties and functions to scrap Instagram profile metadata. A list of all the properties and functions of the Profile class object can be obtained using dir() function.
