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mxchinegod / InstagramDataBot

I wrote a script that miserably hacks the instagram page of a user and parses data after cleaning it up and using lists. I will come up with a better way to do it but Instagram really does not want bots scraping their site, I've found out.
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Get the followers id #1

Open taktikal17 opened 8 years ago

taktikal17 commented 8 years ago

Hi,

Great job! It works very well. How can I get the followers id and/or name? Thank you!!

mxchinegod commented 8 years ago

Hey there! I'm very glad you gained from it.

Unfortunately, I made it without hooking into the Instagram API, but scraping the webpage intelligently.

This allows you to track the data VERY fast (as fast as you want) but does not allow you to use the Instagram data. I chose this because Instagram rate-limiting is a pain and I built the bot with only one goal in mind: to track the growth of a page in numbers of followers.

If you wanted to, you could connect the instagram API to an account in my bot and then every 1 hour, collect every new follower id. This way, I believe it would compliment the graph and work just as well.

The issue with instagram web is that you can't actually find out the name of followers (they really want you to use the app) so you will have to use the API no matter what to get follower id :P

taktikal17 commented 8 years ago

I get your point. Nevertheless, if you can access to the followers list, you can really know who are your followers (hobby, country, gender and so on). The companies can know if your followers fit with their market, and you can sell higher price your publications, if you see what I mean.

I guess you can have access to the followers list on websta when you have an account.

Thanks again for your script! ;)