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If you want to work with Instagrapi (business interests), we strongly advise you to prefer HikerAPI project. However, you won't need to spend weeks or even months setting it up. The best service available today is HikerAPI, which handles 4–5 million daily requests, provides support around-the-clock, and offers partners a special rate. In many instances, our clients tried to save money and preferred instagrapi, but in our experience, they ultimately returned to HikerAPI after spending much more time and money. It will be difficult to find good accounts, good proxies, or resolve challenges, and IG will ban your accounts.

The instagrapi more suits for testing or research than a working business!

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Features:

  • Getting public data of user, posts, stories, highlights, followers and following users
  • Getting public email and phone number, if the user specified them in his business profile
  • Getting public data of post, story, album, Reels, IGTV data and the ability to download content
  • Getting public data of hashtag and location data, as well as a list of posts for them
  • Getting public data of all comments on a post and a list of users who liked it
  • Management of proxy servers, mobile devices and challenge resolver
  • Login by username and password, sessionid and support 2FA
  • Managing messages and threads for Direct and attach files
  • Download and upload a Photo, Video, IGTV, Reels, Albums and Stories
  • Work with Users, Posts, Comments, Insights, Collections, Location and Hashtag
  • Insights by account, posts and stories
  • Like, following, commenting, editing account (Bio) and much more else

instagrapi - Unofficial Instagram API for Python

Fast and effective Instagram Private API wrapper (public+private requests and challenge resolver) without selenium. Use the most recent version of the API from Instagram, which was obtained using reverse-engineering with Charles Proxy and Proxyman.

Instagram API valid for 16 Dec 2023 (last reverse-engineering check)

Support Python >= 3.9

For any other languages (e.g. C++, C#, F#, D, Golang, Erlang, Elixir, Nim, Haskell, Lisp, Closure, Julia, R, Java, Kotlin, Scala, OCaml, JavaScript, Crystal, Ruby, Rust, Swift, Objective-C, Visual Basic, .NET, Pascal, Perl, Lua, PHP and others), I suggest using instagrapi-rest

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Features

  1. Performs Web API or Mobile API requests depending on the situation (to avoid Instagram limits)
  2. Login by username and password, including 2FA and by sessionid (and uses Authorization header instead Cookies)
  3. Challenge Resolver have Email and SMS handlers
  4. Support upload a Photo, Video, IGTV, Reels, Albums and Stories
  5. Support work with User, Media, Comment, Insights, Collections, Location (Place), Hashtag and Direct Message objects
  6. Like, Follow, Edit account (Bio) and much more else
  7. Insights by account, posts and stories
  8. Build stories with custom background, font animation, link sticker and mention users
  9. In the next release, account registration and captcha passing will appear

Examples of apps that use instagrapi

Installation

pip install instagrapi

Basic Usage

from instagrapi import Client

cl = Client()
cl.login(ACCOUNT_USERNAME, ACCOUNT_PASSWORD)

user_id = cl.user_id_from_username(ACCOUNT_USERNAME)
medias = cl.user_medias(user_id, 20)
Additional example 
from instagrapi import Client
from instagrapi.types import StoryMention, StoryMedia, StoryLink, StoryHashtag

cl = Client()
cl.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD, verification_code="<2FA CODE HERE>")

media_pk = cl.media_pk_from_url('https://www.instagram.com/p/CGgDsi7JQdS/')
media_path = cl.video_download(media_pk)
subzeroid = cl.user_info_by_username('subzeroid')
hashtag = cl.hashtag_info('dhbastards')

cl.video_upload_to_story(
    media_path,
    "Credits @subzeroid",
    mentions=[StoryMention(user=subzeroid, x=0.49892962, y=0.703125, width=0.8333333333333334, height=0.125)],
    links=[StoryLink(webUri='https://github.com/subzeroid/instagrapi')],
    hashtags=[StoryHashtag(hashtag=hashtag, x=0.23, y=0.32, width=0.5, height=0.22)],
    medias=[StoryMedia(media_pk=media_pk, x=0.5, y=0.5, width=0.6, height=0.8)]
)

Documentation

Contributing

List of contributors

To release, you need to call the following commands:

python setup.py sdist
twine upload dist/*