harvester_support

Helper files / tips for social media harvesting

You'll need python, obvs, and abilty the install on the device, especially via pip.

instagram

You need an instagram account and password for these.

pip3 install pyinstalive

You have a 24 hour window to grab any livestream archive via the insta username:

pyinstalive -d "interesting_insta_account"

You can alo use a text file of accounts to d a batch, one account per line

pyinstalive -b "my_text_file.txt"

pip3 install instagram-scraper

instagram-scraper intersting_insta_account -u my_insta_account -p my_insta_password

This gets everything. We need to find a way of filtering by date/time. Thats on me. I'll whip up a helper if its needed.

Use youtube-dl

pip3 install fb-down

URL for the video.

fbdown https://www.facebook.com/some_fb_account/videos/____________/

See helper file in tiktok folder