Instagram Post Info

get_post_info.py

import pandas as pd
from instascrape import Post, Profile

def get_post_data(post_object,
             attributes=['caption',
                        'upload_date',
                        'location',
                        'likes',
                        'comments',
                        'id']):
    '''
    Inputs: 
        post_object: an instascrape Post object
        attributes: list of keys we want to extract from post_object
    Returns: 
        Dictonary containing the key-value pairs specifed in attributes
    '''
    
    return {key:post_object[key] for key in attributes}


if __name__ == '__main__':
    #Substitute 'username' with the name of the instagram 
    #profile you want to scrape (as a string)
    profile  = Profile('username')
  
    #Scrape the profile
    profile.scrape()
  
    #Get list of the recent posts
    recents = profile.get_recent_posts()
  
    #Build dataframe
    data = pd.DataFrame([get_post_data(post) for post in recents])