Instagram Comments Crawler

Collect all comments and replies on an instagram post. And pick randomly winners of an event.

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Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Features
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation
3. Usage
4. Contact

About The Project

This is developed for collecting all comments of an instagram post and picking randomly winners of an event.

👀 Features

• Save comments of an instagram post to CSV file.
• Pick winners and save their account and student ID to CSV file. (Optional)
• Automatically download chrome driver.

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⚙️ Built With

• Python
• Selenium

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🚀 Getting Started

This is an example of how you may give instructions on setting up your project locally. To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

Prerequisites

• Download Chrome Browser (Not Chrome Driver)
• Chrome Driver will be downloaded automatically.

Installation

1. Create a virtual environment

   python -m venv [venv]

2. Activate virtual environment

   # For Windows
   source [venv]/scripts/activate
   # For Mac or Linux
   source [venv]/bin/activate

3. Install pip packages

   pip install -r requirements.txt

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🔑 Usage

• ChromeDriver in driver.py is a customized version of Selenium webdriver. So some function of original webdriver is not available.

  from driver import ChromeDriver
  driver = ChromeDriver()

• Details of customized setting

  • user-agent : randomly changed when launching script.
  • auto download chrome driver : automatically download chrome driver compatible with chrome browser installed.
  • Default download path

    # For windows
    C:/Program Files/chrome or C:/Program Files (x86)/chrome
    # For Mac
    /usr/bin/chrome

• It is necessary to login to access an instagram post. User account and password are entered on terminal. Password will be hided by getpass when entering input.

  import getpass
  driver.move_to_login_page()
  
  username = input("Input ID : ")
  password = getpass.getpass("Input Password :")
  
  # For only personal usage, you can just put raw data.
  # username = "instagram_account"
  # password = "password"
  
  driver.login_to_instagram(username, password)

• Set an instagram post url to target_url

  target_url = "https://www.instagram.com/p/..."
  driver.get(target_url)

• Load all comments and replies.

  driver.load_all_comments()
  driver.load_all_replies()

• Save all comments and replies to CSV file. It will be saved to comments_{yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss}.csv

  driver.collect_comments()

• Close chrome driver at the end of script.

  driver.close()

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📮 Contact

Email - [email protected]

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