hnky92/instagram-comments-crawler

crawl Instagram comments using GET request

Instagram-comments-crawler

description

Crawl Instagram comments using GET request.

Without Selenium, it uses the way browser requests to get comments.

--> fast, simple and stable.

It does not crawl reply. Crawl "comments" ONLY

(개발목적: 인스타그램 댓글 이벤트 추첨)

prerequisites

• python 3.8
• requests
• tqdm

changeable parameters

# Seconds to sleep btw each crawling iteration (to prevent DDoS) 
WAIT = 3
# Batch size of crawling (Max 50)
CRAWL_SIZE = 50

usage

## give "postfix URL" of your target post as python arg
## if URL of your post is "https://www.instagram.com/p/B-TvKr_gHNm/"
python3 crawl_comments.py B-TvKr_gHNm

output

TSV format with columns of user-ID and comment.

id1 comment1
id2 comment2
id3 comment3
id4 commnet4
...