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Instagram Crawler

Gem Version Maintainability Build Status Coverage Status security MIT licensed

The easiest way to download instagram photos, posts and videos.

Instagram Crawler is a ruby gem to crawl instagram photos, posts and videos for download.

Installation

$ gem install instagram-crawler

Setting env variable

export sessionid=[your instagram sessionid]

Getting Started

Show all file link

-u || --user_name

instagram-crawler -u <user_name>

Download files after this date following this format: YYYYMMDD. E.g. 20230506

-a || --after 

instagram-crawler -u <user_name> -d -a <after_date>

Download files before this date following this format: YYYYMMDD. E.g. 20230506

-b || --before 

instagram-crawler -u <user_name> -d -b <before_date>

Generate log file

-l || --log 

instagram-crawler -u <user_name> -l

Proxy

-P || --proxyname -p || --port

instagram-crawler -u <user_name> -P http://example.com -p 1234

Help

instagram-crawler -h | --help

Usage:
  instagram-crawler [options]
  See https://github.com/mgleon08/instagram-crawler for more information.

options:
    -u, --username USERNAME          Instagram username
    -d, --download                   Download files
    -a, --after DATE                 Download files after this date (YYYYMMDD)
    -b, --before DATE                Download files before this date (YYYYMMDD)
    -l, --log                        Generate a log file in the current directory
    -P, --proxyname PROXYNAME        Specify proxyname of your proxy server
    -p, --port PORT                  Specify port of your proxy server (default port: 8080)
    -v, --version                    Show the instagram-crawler version
    -h, --help                       Show this message

Docker

# make sure already setting env variable
# you can setting sessionid in local use $sessionid or pass sessionid to docker
# $PWD/instagram-crawler is file store path

# pull image
docker pull mgleon08/instagram-crawler

# docker run
docker run -it --rm -v $PWD/instagram-crawler:/instagram-crawler -e sessionid=$sessionid --name marvel mgleon08/instagram-crawler -u marvel -a 20181124 -d -l

Terms of Use

Instagram Terms of Use

9.You must not access Instagram's private API by any other means other than the Instagram application itself.
10.You must not crawl, scrape, or otherwise cache any content from Instagram including but not limited to user profiles and photos.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/mgleon08/instagram-crawler/pulls

License

  • Copyright (c) 2018 Leon Ji. See LICENSE.txt for further details.
  • The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.