instascrape VS instagram-scraper

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.

I used to use https://github.com/arc298/instagram-scraper

There was a FOSS program that worked. The problem is, if they detect anything remotely like scraping, they'll ban your account. I don't know what a good "pause" amount of time to set in the program would be to get around their flags. I think this was the one I used before (and got my account banned.) https://github.com/arc298/instagram-scraper And then if you don't login, they make you wait a really long time between downloads and you can't access some information (like your saves.)

You are correct, I should be using programName directly, not sure why I was invoking it using python3. The package is instagram-scraper. Still, when I just call "instagram-scraper" with appropriate arguments I get:

Would this project help you in any way? it allows scraping posts by location, among other features https://github.com/arc298/instagram-scraper

I think I was using this https://github.com/arc298/instagram-scraper

to download every data of an account, https://github.com/arc298/instagram-scraper worked. But be warned it's output is a complete mess and nothing is sorted