Instagram comments

[ZeynepP]

Hi,

I am using instagram scraper, it works like a charm for posts (thanks) but i have problems while getting comments. What I found is that the line post = getpath(data_post, ["items", 0, "pk"]) returns None because data_post has no items, post = data_post['graphql']["shortcode_media"]['id'] returns the correct id but still I am not able to get comments.

Thanks in advance, ZP

[Yomguithereal]

Hello @ZeynepP, can you give me a command or at least a instagram post url that can reproduce the problem you are having so I can try to fix it? Also does it happen on every posts or on some specific ones?

[ZeynepP]

Hi @Yomguithereal , I am testing with user name, getting posts and for each post I am tryting to get comments : posts = scraper.user_posts("justinpjtrudeau") It happens for every post.

Thanks ZP

[Yomguithereal]

@ZeynepP I fail to reproduce. I can get comments from https://www.instagram.com/p/CwqyWqqJR4J for instance. What version of minet are you using currently?

[ZeynepP]

@Yomguithereal I am using from source code.

scraper = InstagramAPIScraper()
posts = scraper.user_posts("justinpjtrudeau")

for post in posts:
    print(post)
    comments = scraper.comments(post['url'])
    for com in comments:
        print(com)
    break

I also tested with pip install minet but for comments I have "AttributeError: 'InstagramAPIScraper' object has no attribute 'comments'" error.

[Yomguithereal]

@ZeynepP I don't reproduce your issue. Your code works on my end using latest version of the code. What is this snippet printing on your end?

from minet.__version__ import __identifier__
print(__identifier__)

Also, are you logged in Instagram on your local Firefox browser? You don't give anything to the scraper constructor and it's also possible it cannot use a valid cookie to authenticate (it's not easy to detect programmatically authentication errors on Instagram they are a bit devious about this).

[Yomguithereal]

Latest version is 1.0.0-a51 but I guess your issue is authentication. The scraper constructor either takes the name of a local browser from which to extract your instagram connexion cookie (e.g. firefox, chrome etc.) or a string containing the cookie itself.

[ZeynepP]

@Yomguithereal You are totally right, authentification problem. I logged into instagram it worked on my local.

[ZeynepP]

@Yomguithereal One more question, when I run it on the server, i should give a string containing the cookie itself ?

[Yomguithereal]

Indeed. You can use the minet cookies firefox --url https://instagram.com command locally to acquire it easily (or try scraper.cookie).