instagram-parser
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:camera: Crawl the Instagram website tags and users like if it was a simple API client.
Instagram Parser
The Instagram parser gives you an easy interface to parse all the Instagram's data. Like an API, but without being it! You can get posts by a tag, all user posts
Setup
composer require mineur/instagram-parser:dev-master
Before run your parsers, you first need a query hash. Follow this 5 steps to get yours: How to get a query hash.
Start parsing!
Let's parse all data tagged with the string "github" for instance. You will get a scaled infinite loop of posts related to it until they are finished.
use Mineur\InstagramParser\Instagram;
use Mineur\InstagramParser\Model\InstagramPost;
$queryHash = '298b92c8d7cad703f7565aa892ede943';
Instagram::createTagParser($queryHash)
->parse('github', function(InstagramPost $post) {
dump($post);
});
The console dump will be like this:
Motivation
Since Instagram has restricted its API only to registered and verified applications, you can't get all of its public data being an experimental user or a data science analyst who just wants to play with that, you only have access to the API sandbox mode.
So I decided to create an alternative parser on top of GuzzleHttp library to access to the entire data with a nice interface.
Documentation
For more information about this library see the docs.