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Geordie
Geordie

Reputation: 11

Instaloader data scraping using specific hashtag and timeframe

I need help using instaloader to data scrape posts from Instagram that include #slowfashion from a specific timeframe.

I want to scrape the visual and textual data from the posts (specifically, the image/s posted, their descriptions, and comments).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3085

Answers (1)

Vatsal
Vatsal

Reputation: 36

from datetime import datetime
from itertools import dropwhile, takewhile

import instaloader

# Use parameters to save diffrent metadata
L = instaloader.Instaloader(download_pictures=True,download_videos=False,download_comments=False,save_metadata=True)

# Login
username = input("Enter your username: ")
L.interactive_login(username=username)

# User Query
search = input("Enter Hashtag: ")
limit = int(input("How many posts to download: "))

# Hashtag object
hashtags = instaloader.Hashtag.from_name(L.context, search).get_posts()

# Download Period
SINCE = datetime(2021, 5, 1)
UNTIL = datetime(2021, 3, 1)

no_of_downloads = 0
for post in takewhile(lambda p: p.date > UNTIL, dropwhile(lambda p: p.date > SINCE, hashtags)):
    if no_of_downloads == limit:
        break
    print(post.date)
    L.download_post(post, "#"+search)
    no_of_downloads += 1

Upvotes: 1

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