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https://github.com/arc298/instagram-scraper [ 1 ]

A Python program to download all media from an Instagram account.

• 2019-11-07 – (version indeterminable) under Windows Subsystem for Linux, Debian, 4.4.0-18362-Microsoft #1-Microsoft Mon Mar 18 12:02:00 PST 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux

• 2019-05-13 – (version indeterminable) under Windows Subsystem for Linux, Debian, 4.4.0-17763-Microsoft #379-Microsoft Wed Mar 06 19:16:00 PST 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux

2019-11-07 – (version indeterminable) ∞

It stopped working some time ago..

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/instagram-scraper", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('instagram-scraper==1.6.0', 'console_scripts', 'instagram-scraper')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instagram_scraper-1.6.0-py2.7.egg/instagram_scraper/app.py", line 1367, in main
    scraper.authenticate_as_guest()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instagram_scraper-1.6.0-py2.7.egg/instagram_scraper/app.py", line 234, in authenticate_as_guest
    self.rhx_gis = self.get_shared_data()['rhx_gis']
KeyError: 'rhx_gis'

• Maybe it’s issue 377?

2019-05-13 – (version indeterminable) ∞

Installation ∞

sudo apt-get install python-dev build-essential
sudo apt-get install python-pip
pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip uninstall pip

# I had problems using it from its git repo, so I used Debian's

pip install instagram-scraper
pip install instagram-scraper --upgrade

Usage ∞

instagram-scraper  <username>
# So for https://www.instagram.com/therock/ it would be:
instagram-scraper therock

Footnotes

1. was https://github.com/rarcega/instagram-scraper [ ↩ ]