quick instagram workaround 2017-06-23

instagram_test.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import base64
import re
import requests
import simplejson as json

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
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instagram_url = 'http://instagram.com'
username = '/nycmarathon'
user_id = '499989070'
num_posts = 1

data = requests.get(instagram_url + username)
soup = bs(data.text)

jssrcs = [x for x in soup.find_all('script') if x.get('src') and '/static/bundles/en_US_Commons.js' in x.get('src')]

if (len(jssrcs) == 1):
	jsurl = instagram_url + jssrcs[0].get('src')
	
	
jsdata = requests.get(jsurl)

params = {
	'query_id': re.findall("(?<=queryId:\")[0-9]{17,17}", jsdata.text)[4],
	'id': user_id,
	'first': num_posts
}
	
querydata = requests.get('https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/', params=params)

print(json.dumps(querydata.json(), indent=2))