How to limit the Result

[Ammar8cs]

There are about 10k followers and I want to extract the first 3k emails. Because after 12k it gives exception.
How can i limit the number of iterations.

[Datalux]

The tool has no output limit, so you can edit the code adding a limit to the output. I will consider to add this feature to the project.

[Ammar8cs]

Thanks for replying and please let me where I can insert the limit.

[superman7886]

let me know if you make one

[Datalux]

Thanks for replying and please let me where I can insert the limit.

You can add a counter inside the methods called by commands.

[FayzulSaimun]

like fwersemail(counter = 1000) ?

[powellthepog]

Is there a way to slow the scrape speed as opposed to the counter limit overall? I am thinking of adding

import time

then adding: sleep.time(3)
somewhere within the fwingsemail definition.

Maybe after:
for follow in followings:

#Osintgram.py

def get_fwingsemail(self):
if self.check_private_profile():
return

    followings = []

    try:

        pc.printout("Searching for emails of users followed by target... this can take a few minutes\n")

        rank_token = AppClient.generate_uuid()
        data = self.api.user_following(str(self.target_id), rank_token=rank_token)

        for user in data.get('users', []):
            u = {
                'id': user['pk'],
                'username': user['username'],
                'full_name': user['full_name']
            }
            followings.append(u)

        next_max_id = data.get('next_max_id')
        
        while next_max_id:
            results = self.api.user_following(str(self.target_id), rank_token=rank_token, max_id=next_max_id)

            for user in results.get('users', []):
                u = {
                    'id': user['pk'],
                    'username': user['username'],
                    'full_name': user['full_name']
                }
                followings.append(u)

            next_max_id = results.get('next_max_id')
    
        results = []
        
        pc.printout("Do you want to get all emails? y/n: ", pc.YELLOW)
        value = input()
        
        if value == str("y") or value == str("yes") or value == str("Yes") or value == str("YES"):
            value = len(followings)
        elif value == str(""):
            print("\n")
            return
        elif value == str("n") or value == str("no") or value == str("No") or value == str("NO"):
            while True:
                try:
                    pc.printout("How many emails do you want to get? ", pc.YELLOW)
                    new_value = int(input())
                    value = new_value - 1
                    break
                except ValueError:
                    pc.printout("Error! Please enter a valid integer!", pc.RED)
                    print("\n")
                    return
        else:
            pc.printout("Error! Please enter y/n :-)", pc.RED)
            print("\n")
            return

        for follow in followings:
            sys.stdout.write("\rCatched %i followings email" % len(results))
            sys.stdout.flush()
            user = self.api.user_info(str(follow['id']))
            if 'public_email' in user['user'] and user['user']['public_email']:
                follow['email'] = user['user']['public_email']
                if len(results) > value:
                    break
                results.append(follow)
    
    except ClientThrottledError as e:
        pc.printout("\nError: Instagram blocked the requests. Please wait a few minutes before you try again.", pc.RED)
        pc.printout("\n")
    
    print("\n")

    if len(results) > 0:
        t = PrettyTable(['ID', 'Username', 'Full Name', 'Email'])
        t.align["ID"] = "l"
        t.align["Username"] = "l"
        t.align["Full Name"] = "l"
        t.align["Email"] = "l"

        json_data = {}

        for node in results:
            t.add_row([str(node['id']), node['username'], node['full_name'], node['email']])

        if self.writeFile:
            file_name = self.output_dir + "/" + self.target + "_fwingsemail.txt"
            file = open(file_name, "w")
            file.write(str(t))
            file.close()

        if self.jsonDump:
            json_data['followings_email'] = results
            json_file_name = self.output_dir + "/" + self.target + "_fwingsemail.json"
            with open(json_file_name, 'w') as f:
                json.dump(json_data, f)

        print(t)
    else:
        pc.printout("Sorry! No results found :-(\n", pc.RED)

[yaryatchii]

Hi,

Have you found a solution to limit the results so as not to be blocked by Instagram bots?

[Datalux]

This was fixed in version 1.3 (#150)