/InstaScraper

Thesis

Primary LanguagePython

InstaScraper

Super basic insta scraper for Lorenzo's dissertation! Given an instagram account loops through followers and collects stats including bio, number of posts, etc. Makes use of ChromeDriver and Selenium; this repository has win and mac webdrivers for Chrome 80, if you need a different webdriver you can download it from here.

Usage

Add module folder to path and import scraper class. All methods are documented (ish); also see demo notebook. For example when running from notebooks folder do:

import sys 
sys.path.append("../") 
from insta_scraper import scraper as s