insta-comment-extraction

insta-comment-extraction is an application that allows you to scrape the texts of posts and their comments from a specified account from the current Instagram website (as of 31.05.2022). The software is merely an illustration of how scraping might work, please note that using it would violate Instagram's terms of use.

Usage (please read the section above)

• you need at least python3.8 and the modules in requirements.txt
• best practice is to create a virtual environment

   python3.8 -m venv .env
   # activate .env
   (env) python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

• Within the .env/bin you will need to place the executable geckodriver for your system
• you also need to create a config.py containing:

    USERNAME = "YOUR_USERNAME"
    PASSWORD = "YOUR_PASSWORD"

• start the software with python insta_cookies_login.py