Instagram usernames scraper ?!

same here, i need help please.. do you have a script for that?

I already have one I wrote if you are willing to pay. I'll give it to you for $25.

Also I might let you in on the limitations of "legal" scrapers you can use for instagram. You have a max limit of 5,000 requests per hour. Each request from what I remember for a hashtag search (I haven't looked at the code in a while) can only return a max of something like 38 usernames.

So in the best case scenario you get 190k usernames in an hour. But that's not gonna happen and I'll tell you why. So more than likely you'll be targeting a niche, that niche depending on the popularity might have a lot of people posting to it. However there are duplicates so you have to filter out those, you also don't want really old posts so you filter out those, then you have to figure out if your niche is going to grow at a rate where fresh users will be posting to it otherwise there is only a finite amount of people in which case depending on your needs might not be enough.

If you scrape for about a day on an extremely popular hashtag you're looking at maybe 75k-200k usernames scraped max per unique niche.



Now then, that being said you can also break instagram's TOS (which I would not recommend nor would enable you to do) by scraping through http requests rather than their API, this can be extremely fast and you can scrape thousands of usernames in minutes because they can't enforce a limit on http requests as long as you use some sort of proxy system as well.

But then again not really a point in doing that either because you're going to end up getting the same amount per day anyways just because of how many people post to specific hashtags.

Edit: Also if you decide you want to go the second route please read up about the ethics of web scraping. I'm big on freedom of information but I'm also big on privacy and ethical use of information, before doing anything just do some googling.

Follow Liker can do that, but it don't worth if you only need this feature..

Benny-Danny said:

There is an easy way...

Use firefox, go to iconsquere web site, search for the username you want, click on the userIDs (following or followers) you want, then, just scroll down, down, down (you can use a macro script to do that for you) and then, using a link grabber (search for that on the firefox addons website) just get all the usernames ids links to a txt... then, just remove all the extra info (http :// , links, etc) for each link that contains the user iD using notepad "search / find / replace" tool... and you're good to go... sounds more complicated then it is.. but I'm able to get around 7,000 - 9,000 users iD's in a few minutes doing that.

Cheers!

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Hello,

I really need help. Once we got the user id, how to apply it to make an auto follow in instagram. Could you share the script to autofollow with user id? because I only know the one with username, not user id. Thanks a bunch.

I am also looking for an instagram username scraper. Not ID's, but scraper based on search term in username.

Have sent you a message on Skype.

Check out my scraper - http://imristo.com/instagram-scraper/

It's using the Instagram private API and requires no access tokens. You will be able to scrape users very fast even with your slow Internet speed.