Instagrizzle Scraper

gistfile1.txt

// Quick and dirty Instagram scraper
private function scrape($username)
{
    $source = file_get_contents('http://instagram.com/' . $username);
    $shards = explode('window._sharedData = ', $source);
    $json_response = explode(';</script>', $shards[1]);
    $response_array = json_decode($json_response[0], TRUE);
    $nodes = array_get($response_array, 'entry_data:ProfilePage:0:user:media:nodes');

    $data = array();

    foreach ($nodes as $node) {
        $url = 'https://instagram.com/p/' . $node['code'];
        $image = $node['display_src'];

        $data[] = $node + [
            'url' => $url,
            'link' => $url,
            'image' => $image,
            'thumbnail' => $node['thumbnail_src'],
            'images' => [
                'high_resolution' => ['url' => $image],
                'low_resolution' => ['url' => $image]
            ]
        ];
    }

    return $data;
}
    
function array_get($array, $key, $default = null)
{
    if (is_null($key)) return $array;

    if (isset($array[$key])) return $array[$key];

    foreach (explode('.', $key) as $segment)
    {
        if ( ! is_array($array) || ! array_key_exists($segment, $array))
        {
            return value($default);
        }

        $array = $array[$segment];
    }

    return $array;
}