How can I scrape data from a Instagram post?

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Hello good people,

Any idea on how I can scrape data from a Instagram post.
I’ve tried to use data scrapping but it isn’t getting all the data.
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Kindly advise.

Thanks.

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What data your are trying to scrape please highlight? @Kakooza-Allan-Klaus

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Regular screen scrapping on social media apps is often a pain given the dynamic nature of the content. Instead I would strongly suggest to go through the API route, implementation is not hard but you will need to understand a few concepts. Below a few resources

What is a REST API? - YouTube

Consuming Web Services Explained | Lightboard Series - YouTube

How to do API calls in UiPath | Full Tutorial - YouTube

Instagram Basic Display API: Get a Users Posts - YouTube

Instagram Graph API - Instagram Platform (facebook.com)

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Hello @Kakooza-Allan-Klaus

Are you doing this as part of learning? Plz explain the use case in which you are trying to automate?

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No, it isn’t just learning it is a real use case.
The bot clicks on the likes and it has to scrap all the data of the people that have liked a particular post hope it is clear there.
Thanks

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Yep so in the window which displayed the data did you try performing extraction?

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Thanks @Edwin_Barahona,

Am going to go through them and see whether they will help me.

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Extraction using what?

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I tried using data scrapping but it doesn’t scrap the entire data it only scraps the first eleven people who liked

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Okay so I can understand it is due to the scroll thing present over there.

You need to build a looping logic to scrape few records scroll down and scrape next few.

This approach may help.

Thanks
#nK

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Yes, have you tried extracting data from the window that displayed it?

might be this link help you below:
https://forum.uipath.com/t/how-to-scrape-data-from-instagram-here

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