Gets instagram public username and returns usefull informations like profilepic(b64), video_urls etc.

• this project contains a main python file and the instagram-private-api module files, the main file uses the module only for authentication and the main program that extracts the data is our main.py file.

• the instapi directory is needed and the instagram-private-api module must be installed before use.

• First of all run:

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

1- to run directly :

• run the main.py file with or without arguments, if you do not provide the required information with arguments it will ask you to enter them manually in the terminal.
• if you run the file directly the output will automatically be saved to an outputxx.json file where xx is a random number.

2- to use this feature in another file :

• just import the extractIG function from main.py -> "from main import extractIG"

• you may face some import errors from 1 outta 10000 but if you did you have to manually put a . at the beggrning of some imports, I'll talk about it more at the end.

• by importing and using "extractIG" in another file it will return all information as json.

• to user the returned json for those who are not familiar just follow the steps below:

  • data = extractIG('username', 'password', 'target_username')
  • data = json.loads(data)

  now to access the data just follow the path like this:

      data["user"]["username"]

  the returned json structure is:

      allInfo = {
      'user': {
          'username' : '',
          'uid' : '',
          'bio' : '',
          'followings_count' : '',
          'followers_count' : '',
          'profile_pic_url' : '',
          'profile_pic_b64': '',
          'videos' : [],
  
          }
  }

  to access the videos loop through them:

  videos = data["user"]["videos"]
  for video in videos:
      ... # do anything you want to each video

• Do not try to print the data because the returned image is formated to base64 and that's a lots of text and makes it unreadable when printed to the terminal.

• As I said at the beggining after running the main file directly all the returned data will be stored in a json file, you can use "Beautify" extension to make the json file more readable and tidier.

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