Show IG User Info on Website ?

[junior520]

Hello guys,

I hope someone here can help me with my project.
I want to show the user info of an instagram account on my website, for example: username, bio, follower count, following count.
Unfortunately I don't know much about Instagram API, maybe someone can help me with this.
Please let me know If you are interested, maybe we can work something out together

 

[daibu]

Are you talking about allowing a logged in user to see their own Instagram information or other people's?

 

[junior520]

Are you talking about allowing a logged in user to see their own Instagram information or other people's?

No, I want to show it without being logged in. Just search the username and it shows the stats, kinda like social blade for YouTube etc.

 

[daibu]

Then I believe you need the Instagram Graph API. I've never worked with it specifically, but on most of these things you need to register your "app" (in this case, your website) using their developer portal. You'll probably need to select the data you're interested in and then go through a review process where you explain what you plan to do with it.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/
If you can't get approved (but the information you're after is displayed publicly on Instagram), then you can scrape the data with a bot. Accessing the info will probably require loading full webpages, though, so if you're trying to populate your site with on-demand data, then there will be a significant lag. If you want to explore this route, then look into web automation using Puppeteer. If Instagram is trying to prevent this though (and it seems likely), then you'll have a tough battle ahead of you where you need to rotate IP addresses, mask your browser fingerprint, etc - most of which is not trivial.

If Instagram is NOT doing too much to prevent this, then there are surely loads of libraries written in all languages which scrape common user information. Search for one that fits into your stack.

 

[TheLovelyUnicron]

If you are not familiar with Instagram Graph API or you were not approved for usage, you can head over to rapidapi and try one of the APIs there for instagram (They provide the code ready for use in all kinds of languages).

Best of luck!

 

[junior520]

Then I believe you need the Instagram Graph API. I've never worked with it specifically, but on most of these things you need to register your "app" (in this case, your website) using their developer portal. You'll probably need to select the data you're interested in and then go through a review process where you explain what you plan to do with it.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/
If you can't get approved (but the information you're after is displayed publicly on Instagram), then you can scrape the data with a bot. Accessing the info will probably require loading full webpages, though, so if you're trying to populate your site with on-demand data, then there will be a significant lag. If you want to explore this route, then look into web automation using Puppeteer. If Instagram is trying to prevent this though (and it seems likely), then you'll have a tough battle ahead of you where you need to rotate IP addresses, mask your browser fingerprint, etc - most of which is not trivial.

If Instagram is NOT doing too much to prevent this, then there are surely loads of libraries written in all languages which scrape common user information. Search for one that fits into your stack.

If you are not familiar with Instagram Graph API or you were not approved for usage, you can head over to rapidapi and try one of the APIs there for instagram (They provide the code ready for use in all kinds of languages).

Best of luck!

Thank you very much guys, I think RapidAPI is my way to go now

 

[Daltonmediastudio]

Thank you very much guys, I think RapidAPI is my way to go now

hello, you find it as i need the same but with more options to show the following of particular user on Instagram

 

[smmturk]

You can check github for the free way. Apart from that, you can examine the graph api. Or you can look at 3rd party API sites.

 

[Daltonmediastudio]

i use now RapidAPI but the issue is costly to get media info and followers list
any one have way to decrease the api calls if i will scrape the user following more than one time at the same day