Get Count of Instagram Comments of a certain post by it's URL based on web scraping with Python

get_instagram_comments_count_by_url.py

"""
Gets number of comments of a Instagram Post based on page source using BS4 & JSON from GraphQL extraction
Thanks to <a href="http://edmundmartin.com/scraping-instagram-with-python/">edmundmartin</a> for the
beautiful instagram scraping methodology
"""
def get_instagram_post_comments_count(url):
    restX,contentX=httplib2.Http().request(url)
    soupX=BeautifulSoup(contentX,"html.parser")
    body=soupX.find('body')
    script_tag=body.find('script')
    raw_string=script_tag.text.strip().replace('window._sharedData =', '').replace(';','')
    json_content=json.loads(raw_string)
    comments=json_content['entry_data']['PostPage'][0]['graphql']['shortcode_media']['edge_media_to_comment']['count']
    return int(comments)