I'm just curious, but these days Instagram has given me some doubts. I've made a simple crawler using BeautifulSoup to extract date and receive daily information from new posts. The question is if I can extract access information to my profile? How many times did a user x view, how many times a user x searched for my user. I've read their entire security terms and I know they hold this kind of information, but is it possible for me to have this type of access or is it something restricted to them? Sorry for the "simple" doubt.
How far can I use Instagram data in a crawler? [closed]
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asked by anonymous 25.05.2018 / 18:36
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If the information is not public (or you do not have access after logging in), you can not scrape it. Sometimes the information is loaded but not shown; hence an analysis of the requests that come and go and the hidden elements of the page may reveal something, but I believe there is nothing like that with Instagram.
Outside crawlers, one can look at the Instagram API as mentioned in @Sorack's comment, but I did not find nothing like what you want; it's probably something they do not provide.
25.05.2018 / 22:13