instagram-scraper vs instagram-parser

instagram-scraper

scrapes medias, likes, followers, tags and all metadata. Inspired by instagram-php-scraper,bot (by realsirjoe)

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instagram-parser

:camera: Crawl the Instagram website tags and users like if it was a simple API client. (by mineur)

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instagram-scraper		instagram-parser
	Project
2	Mentions	1
2,503	Stars	117
-	Growth	3.4%
3.3	Activity	10.0
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	about 6 years ago
Python	Language	PHP
MIT License	License	MIT License

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instagram-scraper

Posts with mentions or reviews of instagram-scraper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-09.

Help in scraping Instagram
2 projects | /r/webscraping | 9 Oct 2021

Yes: https://github.com/realsirjoe/instagram-scraper
Fetching all comments from an Instagram post?
3 projects | /r/webscraping | 16 Jun 2021

You could look into this Python scraper, but it's a bit buggy. There's also this PHP scraper you can use to get all the comments.

instagram-parser

Posts with mentions or reviews of instagram-parser. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-09.

Help in scraping Instagram
2 projects | /r/webscraping | 9 Oct 2021

This one might be useful if you'd like to avoid Selenium (or any other browser driver). It shows how you could use the API: https://github.com/mineur/instagram-parser/issues/7

What are some alternatives?

When comparing instagram-scraper and instagram-parser you can also consider the following projects:

instagram-php-scraper - Get account information, photos, videos, stories and comments.

GramAddict bot - Completely free and open-source human-like Instagram bot. Powered by UIAutomator2 and compatible with basically any Android device 5.0+ that can run Instagram - real or emulated.

cloudflare-scrape - A Python module to bypass Cloudflare's anti-bot page.

instascrape - Powerful and flexible Instagram scraping library for Python, providing easy-to-use and expressive tools for accessing data programmatically

fansly-downloader - Easy to use fansly.com content downloading tool. Written in python, but ships as a standalone Executable App for Windows too. Enjoy your Fansly content offline anytime, anywhere in the highest possible content resolution! Fully customizable to download in bulk or single: photos, videos & audio from timeline, messages, collection & specific posts 👍

Moodle-DL - Moodle-DL downloads course content fast from Moodle (eg. lecture pdfs)

instagram-scraper - Scrapes an instagram user's photos and videos

rewe-discounts - Grabs current REWE discounts and saves them in a markdown file || Holt sich aktuelle REWE-Angebote und exportiert sie in eine Markdown-Liste

dotcommon - What do people have in their dotfiles?

telegram-groups-crawler - A Telegram crawler made in Python to automatically search groups and channels and collect any type of data from them (+ dataset included).

bookcorpus - Crawl BookCorpus