Scraping an Instagram account's demographics

There's a couple of Instagram accounts that has a very similar type of target audience I'm looking for, in terms of age, gender, location, interests, education etc.

Is there some way to extract all these info from the account, then generate these into simple charts so I can see the pattern?

Once I know the demographics, I can then know how to target them better on social media ads. Currently, it feels like my targeting is all off.

Will hiring someone to write a scraping script work in this case?

Hire a python guy

Hiring a coder to scrape is an option or you can directly hire a scraping service for Instagram to get the data you're looking for.

There are quite some services in the 'Social Media' section of the BHW Marketplace.

Xeon said:

There's a couple of Instagram accounts that has a very similar type of target audience I'm looking for, in terms of age, gender, location, interests, education etc.

Is there some way to extract all these info from the account, then generate these into simple charts so I can see the pattern?

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No, IG does not give you:

* age
* gender
* location
* interests
* education

You can try and work out gender by first word of the full_name property, but that's all you can do.
Location, if they are a business they may have it, otherwise you cannot. You can try and match words in bio (of flag emojis) or scrape their most recent (n) posts and see if they are location_tagged. But that's the best you can do there
Interests: Scrape (n) posts and look for hashtags, not going to be very accurate on the whole, but your only way
Education: No idea on how you might even begin here.


Basically what you want to do is not possible, the best you can do is make some guesses. Before paying anyone to do this for you, you need to understand what data is possible to extract and what they will need to make "guesses" on and ask to see some proof their guesses are accurate

You might want to contact a professional, there are people who do this type of scraping. I hire a professional to scrape me lists and get amazing results.