This is a small bit of data curation work to collect information about Teju Cole's public posts on Instagram and make them available as a CSV that can be loaded into a spreadsheet for analysis.
One thing that's easy to do once you have the CSV data is generate a chart of Cole's activity over time using Google Sheets:
If you want to regenerate teju.csv yourself you will need to:
- install Node
- install Python
npm install instagram-screen-scrapenode_modules/instagram-screen-scrape/bin/index.js --username _tejucole > teju.jsonpython json2csv.py
FWIW, I initially tried to use the Instagram API, but you have to create an app to authenticate, and the app is in the sandbox, so it can't see Teju's public posts. So it was easier to scrape the public website in this case.