Instagram Monitor / Scraper

Instagram monitor / scraper allows you to monitor user(s) activities without searching through the web. Simply follow instruction below to get started!

I have removed story monitor because of several reason, (1). I need to find better solution in dealing with rate limits, (2). I want to also separate both post and story monitor in their own respective repo. I will announce when I will upload the story monitor later.

Installation

Instagram Monitor / Scraper requires the following...

• Node.js (LTS Version)
• YarnPKG

Quick start:

# Install dependencies
yarn install

# Run application
yarn run start

# To update code
git pull

# Add stuff in your config.json
{
    "discord": {
        "webhook_url": "<Your webhook>",
        "username": "Instagram Monitor",
        "avatar": "",
        "footertext": "",
        "footericon": ""
    },
    "pollMS": 5000,
    "accounts": ["cybersole", "destroyerbots", "testzhi", "offspringhq", "cncpts"],
    "keywords": ["restock", "*"]
}

Features:

# Ability to monitor any instagram accounts ✅
# Able scrape posts ✅
# OCR reader ✅

Updates:

9/18/19

# Added better error handling ✅
# Added story monitor ✅

10/25/19

# Updated better error handling ✅
# Removed story monitor ✅ (removed temporary for now)
# Removed needing an account to authenticate ✅ (no need to use your existing account anymore)

Todo:

• Ability to monitor any instagram accounts
• Able scrape posts
• Customizable Discord Embeds
• OCR reader
• Better way to rotate proxies
• Added better error handling

Note:

• Proxy Timeout is most likely proxy ban, so it will send a 503 status code meaning it failed to request page.
• Rate Limited means status 429, so it will fail to request page.

Tips

• Recommend using proxies, it should be datacenter because I found out resi get ban very easily. (UNLESS you found unbanned resi proxies then sure.)
• Increasing your proxies pool will strongly avoid proxy timeout + datacenter been doing very good for me.
• Using more proxies, you can simply lower delay. (Go ahead and test first before setting it way low.)

Bugs?

Feel free to make an issue about any particular errors or bugs such as internal functionality bugs.

DISCLAIMER

Please do not abuse this script, any abused from this script will result in banned by Instagram. This is meant for only to be used for educational purpose.

Donate

Staring this repo will do the trick :)

App Info

Author

Eric Zhang

Version

1.0.0

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details