v1.0.0 - Initial Release

Instagram Account Scraper v1.0.0

Features

• Profile Scraping: Extract username, full name, bio, follower count, following count, post count, verification status, business category, and profile picture URLs
• Post Scraping: Scrape photos, videos, and carousel posts with captions, like counts, comment counts, hashtags, and mentions
• Reel Scraping: Extract reels with view counts, play counts, duration, and music information
• Story Scraping: Download active stories (login required)
• Hashtag Scraping: Get top and recent posts for any hashtag
• Follower/Following Lists: Batch retrieve follower and following lists (login required)
• Email Extraction: Automatically extract email addresses from bios and post captions
• Batch Scraping: Process multiple accounts from a text file with progress bars
• Export Formats: JSON, CSV, and Excel output
• Rate Limiting: Built-in configurable rate limiting with random delays
• Retry Logic: Exponential backoff retry on failures
• Proxy Support: Rotate through multiple proxies
• CLI Tool: 10 subcommands for different scraping operations

Installation

pip install -e .

Usage

# Scrape a profile
ig-scraper profile nasa

# Scrape posts
ig-scraper posts nasa --limit 10

# Batch scrape
ig-scraper batch accounts.txt

# Hashtag scraping
ig-scraper hashtag travel --limit 20

License

MIT License