Merge pull request #255 from rutujadhanawade/Instagram_scrap

Instagram scraper

Author: powerexploit

Web-Scraping/Instagram/README.md

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+# INSTAGRAM SCRAPPER
+
+###  Instagram_count
+
+- This Script counts the number of followings, followers and posts.
+- Takes the username from the terminal and shows them the output.
+

Web-Scraping/Instagram/instagram_count.py

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+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+import requests
+
+#The instagram URL
+URL="https://www.instagram.com/{}/"
+username = input(" Enter the instagram username ")
+
+#request a response from the URL
+response = requests.get(URL.format(username))
+# scraping the contents
+soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text,"html.parser")
+#The contents of the meta tag with the property og:description are accessed here
+meta_content = soup.find("meta", property="og:description") 
+#print(meta_content)
+data = {}
+content = meta_content.attrs['content']
+content = content.split("-")[0]
+content = content.split(" ")
+
+data['Followers'] = content[0]
+data['Following'] = content[2]
+data['Posts'] = content[4]
+
+print(username + " has " + data["Followers"]+" followers, "+ data["Following"]+" following, "+ data["Posts"]+" posts ")
+
+
+'''
+output:
+ Enter the instagram username "ferrari"
+ ferrari has 19m followers, 5 following, 2,538 posts 
+'''