A small library that allows you to scrape Instagram – limited to biographies, follower numbers, emails and external URLs for now.
To use, simply do:
In [1]: import instascrape
In [2]: instascrape.bio_scrape('9gag')
Out[2]:
{'bio': u'The best content platform for millennials \u2022 Share your content with our 150M | global audience \u2022 \U0001f4e7 creation@9gag.com \u2022',
'email': u'creation@9gag.com',
'external_url': 'http://9gag.com/apps',
'followers': 38911657,
'ig_handle': '9gag',
'ig_url': 'https://www.instagram.com/9gag/'}