Instagram Highlights

$ scr highlight --help

Command for scraping Instagram highlight files.

Before Usage

1. Run $ scr login --instagram.
2. Type your Instagram username in the username: input.
3. Type your Instagram password in the password: input.
4. Wait until > Log-in successful. is printed.

Usage

$ scr highlight HIGHLIGHT ITEM

Options

• -h, --headless: Toggle for background scraping.

How Does It Work?

1. The user puts Instagram credentials ahead of highlight scraping.
2. The Chromium bot will remember the credentials entered the login form of the selected social network.
3. The user specifies the social network and the desired post ID.
4. The Chromium bot browser is opened.
5. Puppeteer navigates to the highlight.
6. Puppeteer loads all available files and their URLs.
7. The CLI downloads the files to the current codebase directory.
8. The bot browser is closed.
9. The command is terminated by the Node.js runtime.