Scrape IG business mail

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Fluu

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• May 13, 2022

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Hey, I am scraping public profile information via IGs /?__a=1 endpoint/parameter. However, I do not get any mail adresses (except extracting them from the bio text) which are showed in the mobile app when you press the email-button. Is there a way to scrape this information?

Another question, some IG influencer analyze tools offer Audience data including location, age, language,... of the follwing accounts. Is there an other/better way to gather this data than scraping the follower's user profiles and guessing age/gender/language with some AI service and getting location from post tags?


Greets

 

mnunes532

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• May 14, 2022

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You can only get the emails using the mobile api. Mobile api also gives some information about location if the account you are scraping is business.

 

mihai1497

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• May 14, 2022

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As mentioned by @mnunes532 for location, it depends if the account shared it or not.

For age/language, I don't think there is an endpoint even on the mobile api where this is available, so I think they're just "guessing" them based on data.

 

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Fluu

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• May 16, 2022
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Okay thanks. I do not have any experience with scraping mobile API and could not find any good introduction/tutorial,... . Is scraping it a realistic project(i have quite a good knowledge about security/network/coding but have no information about the API) or do you have any resources/tutorials/API introduction,... about it?

I have enough residential proxies and accounts available, but it should work computationally cheap/efficient, so using an Android emulator is not an option, as I have scrape quite a big number of accounts.

 

mnunes532

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• May 16, 2022

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This will help you a lot https://github.com/ping/instagram_private_api

There are other scripts/code in github, most of them outdated (even outdated they may work) in other languages.

Start with python, its easy to learn/use.

 

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Fluu

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• May 20, 2022
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Thx for the Repo. But i do not mean the private API but the mobile API. Because also over the private API I cannot get the business email(which is available in the mobile app but not in browser versions). Do you know any Github Repo for that? coding language does not matter.

 

travelbing

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• May 20, 2022

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use mobile api, Jarvee can do it for you. its easy

 

mnunes532

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• May 20, 2022

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Fluu said:

Thx for the Repo. But i do not mean the private API but the mobile API. Because also over the private API I cannot get the business email(which is available in the mobile app but not in browser versions). Do you know any Github Repo for that? coding language does not matter.

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Have you even open the link?

A Python wrapper for the Instagram private API with no 3rd party dependencies. Supports both the app and web APIs.

 

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Fluu

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• May 25, 2022
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mnunes532 said:

Have you even open the link?

A Python wrapper for the Instagram private API with no 3rd party dependencies. Supports both the app and web APIs.

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Sorry, I totally read over that one.

This is exactly what I need, thank you so much.