instagram-scrape

Scraper for Instagram built on Chromeless.

How it works

Script continuously scrolls until it reaches a specified end condition (optional), creating a file in the scraped-urls directory that contains links for images.

End conditions

• Link limit reached (specified by --max parameter)
• Scrolled to end of profile/tag

Usage

1. Install dependencies yarn install
2. Launch a Chrome session with --remote-debugging-port=9222 specified.
3. Run instagram-scrape node instagram-scrape.js with parameters specified.

Parameters

• --user : Profile name to scrape
• --tag : Tag to scrape
• --url : URL of a page to scrape

(One is required)

• --max : Maximum links to scrape (Optional)