Social::Instagram::Tag - Instagram Tag Post Scraper

Overview of the scraper

Social::Instagram::Tag – scrapes posts by tags from Instagram. Automated collection of all data: post type, text, publication date, number of comments, number of likes, and much more. Along with the comment text, it also collects the author's profile link, the number of likes on it, and the time it was created.

You can use automatic query replication, substitution of subqueries from files, iteration of alphanumeric combinations and lists to get the maximum possible number of results. Using result filtering you can immediately clean the result, removing all unnecessary junk (using minus words).

A-Parser functionality allows you to save Social::Instagram::Tag scraper settings for further use (presets), set scraping schedules, and much more.

Results can be saved in the form and structure you need, thanks to the built-in powerful templating engine Template Toolkit which allows you to apply additional logic to the results and output data in various formats, including JSON, SQL and CSV.

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The scraper uses data from an authorized account. To run the scraper, you must specify a value for the cookie option.

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Scraper use cases

Collecting all posts by tags

1. Override option Count of pages with posts, select 100.
2. Override option Result format, set value to $posts.format('$link\n').
3. Specify tags as queries.

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How to import the example into A-Parser

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Collected Data

Two arrays with regular posts and top posts:

• Post type
• Link to post
• Text
• Publication date (in Unix format)
• Number of comments
• Number of likes
• Link to icon
• Image width and height
• Link to avatar
• Number of posts

Use Cases

• Collecting posts by tags

Setup

Obtaining the required option for authorization

Spoiler: how to find cookie?

Go to any profile, having first opened the debug mode by pressing F12. Using the string graphql/query ( (json type), look for the necessary request that stores the values for the scraper. Go to the request and copy the value from the cookie parameter.

Queries

Tags must be specified as queries, for example:

sport  
cpu

Result Output Options

A-Parser supports flexible results formatting thanks to the built-in templating engine Template Toolkit, which allows it to output results in arbitrary form, as well as in structured form, such as CSV or JSON

Default Output

Result format:

$query:\nPosts:\n$posts.format('$link\n')

Result example:

Posts:  
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0FtUJboZC0/  
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Fs7maCIvq/  
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0FszBRgOoS/  
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0FrgVTBgFI/  
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0FqeKvBSjC/  
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0FogPGnOIG/  
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0FoHSuCSUr/  
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Fl5JWgWts/  
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Fj_P0ji83/  
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Fgn5YHCiC/  
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Fd4uvAOyf/  
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0FdfGjnVVs/  
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0FdLEDgrTe/  
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0FdEORCa0Z/

Links to Top Posts

Result format:

$top.format('$link\n')

Result example:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMMKTr4pi3o/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMMKTCGHZ1c/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMMKStkF59q/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMMKRNun5Jg/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMMKRI-JTp8/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMMKQmfBD9O/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMMKHsiF5GT/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMMKQUpHXy4/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMMKPL1HxTx/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMMKOAkn1mP/

Possible Settings

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Common settings for all scrapers

Parameter	Default value	Description
Count of pages with posts	10	Number of pages with posts
Treat disconnect as IP ban	☑	Treat connection loss as IP ban