Scrape followers from 500k acc + sort by follower count

[xtipico]

How can I do this?

 

[morched23mj]

One way to go about this, is to make a script using Python.
One of the libraries that you could use, is Selenium. It allows you to click on web elements, fill, or extract data. You're able to extract followers/following number. And you're able to click on the follow button. Moreover, it allows to load dynamic pages, such as Instagram ones
The only problem to solve here, is to figure out a way of constantly scrolling through the list of that Account.
If the latter is figured out, then all you got to do, is for each account, get followers/following, compare, and if it suits the conditions, register the username into a file text. Once you finish. You could periodically follow these accounts registered in the file, in order to avoid a block.
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I suppose you have previous experience with programming.

 

[misterbarth]

You can use Imristo

 

[rootjazz]

One way to go about this, is to make a script using Python.
One of the libraries that you could use, is Selenium. It allows you to click on web elements, fill, or extract data. You're able to extract followers/following number. And you're able to click on the follow button. Moreover, it allows to load dynamic pages, such as Instagram ones
The only problem to solve here, is to figure out a way of constantly scrolling through the list of that Account.
If the latter is figured out, then all you got to do, is for each account, get followers/following, compare, and if it suits the conditions, register the username into a file text. Once you finish. You could periodically follow these accounts registered in the file, in order to avoid a block.
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I suppose you have previous experience with programming.

Sorry but this is wrong. You cannot scrape 500k followers via the website with selenium. ISG doesn't serve that many from the website.


tbh I don't even know if the phone API will allow you to request 500k responses. However, it *WILL* give you more results than the website.

Also, keep in mind, you may not be able to do this with a single account (what normal user does this?).

So you need an advanced scraping bot that allows you to share the scrapes across multiple accounts, also it will need to save the results as it goes, nothing worse than doing a big scrape, getting to 400k and then getting an error and losing all the results. Then you just need to save out the user details either as JSON / CSV for each result, then just order on the results (CSV is probably easier so you can just load it into excel, and click and column followers_count