instaParse - automatic aggregator of data from Instagram

Parsing the video files + the texts from this post and searching for them in the app

More detailed (presentation)

Technology stack

• Scrapy
• Scrapyrt
• Flask
• React js
• MongoDB

Also used

• VK Mini App platrofm
• ScraperApi
• Cron task

Get started

Frontend

cd web
npm install
npm start

it will be better to use vk mini app hosting:

npm run deploy

Backend

Flask

cd api
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python run.py

Scrapy & Scrapyrt

pip3 install Scrapy
pip3 install Scrapyrt
scrapyrt

MongoDB

good manual

Cron task

crontab -e
sudo systemctl enable cron

grep CRON /var/log/syslog // check logs

Сreators

made by Mike Petrov (@mike_petrov) & Leonid Romanychev (@romanychev-l)

433 group of AM-CP Faculty SPBU