Search instagram by user name

instagram_users_media_recent.py

import requests
import json
from datetime import datetime
import os
import time
import urllib


SEARCH_OLD = True
USER = 'boxnumber03'
PHOTO_DIR = './photos'
COUNT = 10


params = {}
#params['client_id'] = ...
params['access_token'] = ...
params['count'] = COUNT


def get_userid(user):
	params['q'] = user
	r = requests.request('GET', 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/search', params=params)
	del params['q']
	j = r.json()
	if 'data' in j and len(j['data']) > 0:
		return j['data'][0]['id']
	else:
		return None


def print_data(item, brief=True):
	print(item['id'])
	print('%s - %s' % (item['created_time'], datetime.fromtimestamp(int(item['created_time']))))
	if not brief:
		user = item['user']
		print(user['id'])
		print(user['username'])
		print(user['full_name'])
		print(user['profile_picture'])
		if item['location']:
			print(item['location']['latitude'], item['location']['longitude'])
		print(item['type'])
		if 'images' in item:
			print(item['images']['standard_resolution']['url'])
		if 'videos' in item:
			print(item['videos']['standard_resolution']['url'])
		if item['caption']:
			print(item['caption']['text'])
		print(item['tags'])
		print(item['likes']['count'])


def get_photo(item):
	if item['type'] == 'image':
		photo_url = item['images']['standard_resolution']['url']
		name = item['user']['username']
		file_name = os.path.join(PHOTO_DIR, name) + '.' + photo_url.split('.')[-1]
		urllib.urlretrieve(photo_url, file_name)


url = 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/%s/media/recent' % get_userid(USER)


while True:
	print('-------------------------------------')
	r = requests.request('GET', url, params=params)
	print(r.status_code)
	j = r.json()
	if 'data' in j and len(j['data']) > 0:
		for item in j['data']:
			print_data(item)
			get_photo(item)
		if SEARCH_OLD:
			if 'next_max_id' in j['pagination']:
				params['max_id'] = j['pagination']['next_max_id']
			else:
				break;
		else:
			if 'next_min_id' in j['pagination']:
				params['min_id'] = j['pagination']['next_min_id']
			else:
				break;
	time.sleep(3)