Hi All,
This is my first attempt at creating something that scrapes an Instagram viewer to get 3 pieces of info:
1.Hashtag name 2. The amount of photos that have that hashtag 3. The other hashtags that appeared on that page when it was scraped.
At the moment it goes into a .txt file which is formatted with easy copy/paste into excel (I'm OSX).
I'd apriciate imput or people who want to collaborate. In the future I want to turn this into a RoR project that puts this info into a database. It would be cool if this project has the following columns
- ID
- Unique Hashtags (no repeats)
- Amount of times that hashtag has been scraped.
- Related tags for each specific time the tag was scraped. (To be continued in next update.)
Eventually, I would like it if this script referenced a database or file and automatically started scraping new unique tags (urls) that it hadn't scraped before.
Lastly, at the moment there's plenting of "puts". I think I tried taking them out and things got buggy. Working on it.
Cheers, B