instascrape VS ao3scraper

Link to the open source package I used: https://github.com/chris-greening/instascrape

There are Instagram scrapers that you can use for this if you don't want to use the Instagram api. It can fetch a lot of posts, but you should rate limit it.

In this blog post, I'm going to give a quick tutorial on how you can scrape every post on an Instagram profile page using instascrape with less than 10 lines of Python!

Additionally, you can check in on the progress (or even contribute) on the major-version-2 branch of the repo on GitHub.

There are rate limits in Instagram. From instascrape FAQ

With the release of v1.6.0, instascrape now provides the ability to scrape IGTV data in just a few lines of code with the IGTV class:

This year was my first Hacktoberfest, and I really enjoyed the event. This was my first time trying to really get into open source. I appreciate ds912 for creating Good First Issues, which helped me find good open source projects that I felt like I was capable of contributing to, like the lovely Instascrape by @chrisgreening . I learned how Hacktoberfest is more than just submitting pull requests that serve some value, but also making connections with other people in the open source community. While Hacktoberfest wasn't executed perfectly this year, the celebration of open source certainly has had some positive impacts and has taught me a lot.