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Instagram comment scraper using python and selenium. Save the comments into excel.

Instagram Comments Scraper

Installation

  1. Clone:

    git clone [email protected]:AgiMaulana/Instagram-Comments-Scraper.git

    or git clone https://github.com/AgiMaulana/Instagram-Comments-Scraper.git

    or download the zip

  2. Create Virtual Environment (Recommended)

    • pip install virtualenv
    • virtualenv .venv
  3. Activate the virtual environment

    • source .venv/bin/activate
  4. Install dependencies

    • pip install -r requirements.txt
  5. Install Chrome Web Driver

    • wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/x.xx/chromedriver_linux64.zip
      See the latest Chrome web driver on https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

    • Extract and move the binary to bin: unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip -d .venv/bin/
    • Make it executable chmod +x .venv/bin/chromedriver
  6. Run

    • python scraper.py post-url total-load-more-click

    Change the URL with your post target.
    For example : python scraper.py https://www.instagram.com/p/CBHH2KjI6BW/ 5

  7. Deactivate the virtual environment

    • deactivate

License

This project is under the MIT License