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aahouzi / Instagram-Scraper-2021

Scrape Instagram content and stories, using a new technique based on the har file (No Token + No public API).
MIT License
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I don't wanna to be blocked on Instagram #1

Closed naziko2411 closed 3 years ago

naziko2411 commented 3 years ago

Hey! I really like your project! XPath Selenium is very useful for picking dates for me! But does it blocks my Instagram account after I logged into this?

ghost commented 3 years ago

Sometimes Instagram blocks access for ur Selenium code, if u tried to scrap data many times in a row. In case this happens, u are redirected to a logging page, and in my code u connect with a random account I created just to continue scrapping. To answer ur question, u can't do anything about getting blocked since it's more related to Instagram. However, most of the times it works pretty well for me without getting blocked. For example, I just runned the code three times in a row now without getting blocked. I wish I answered ur questions clearly enough.

naziko2411 commented 3 years ago

I thought that Xpath selenium was helpful for any content.

ghost commented 3 years ago

Yeah, but depending on the website u are scraping. If u are scraping Stackoverflow for example, u won't face these problems of getting blocked. Good luck!