/instaget

A tiny Node.js API to get data from Instagram

Primary LanguageJavaScript

A tiny Node.js API to get data from Instagram

This is a tiny Node.js API that allows following operations on Instagram:

login to instagram via an instagram username and password
get basic profile information
search instagram accounts

Note: This library uses Chrome engine via Puppeteer

Installation

Via npm:

$ npm i instaget --save

Or yarn:

$ yarn add instaget

Usage

In a Javascript ES6 project:

import Instagram from "instaget";

const ig = new Instagram();

const username = "ig_user";
const password = "ig_pass";

// Login to instagram via an instagram username and password
await ig.login(username, password);

// Search on instagram accounts and get search results
const searchResults = await ig.search("john");