Python to Gather Instagram Profile Information with Full Source Code

Instagram profile information.

Install Packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt
Code language: CSS (css)

Requirements:

• appdirs==1.4.3
• beautifulsoup4==4.9.2
• bs4==0.0.1
• CacheControl==0.12.6
• certifi==2019.11.28
• chardet==3.0.4
• colorama==0.4.3
• contextlib2==0.6.0
• distlib==0.3.0
• distro==1.4.0
• html5lib==1.0.1
• idna==2.8
• ipaddr==2.2.0
• lockfile==0.12.2
• lxml==4.6.3
• msgpack==0.6.2
• packaging==20.3
• pep517==0.8.2
• Pillow==8.3.2
• progress==1.5
• pyparsing==2.4.6
• pytoml==0.1.21
• requests==2.22.0
• retrying==1.3.3
• six==1.14.0
• soupsieve==2.0.1
• tqdm==4.50.0
• urllib3==1.26.5
• webencodings==0.5.1

Source Code:

profilepic.py

from tqdm import tqdm
import requests
import re
from PIL import Image  


#Function to download profile picture of instagram accounts
def pp_download(username):
    
    url = "https://www.instagram.com/{}/".format(username)
    x = re.match(r'^(https:)[/][/]www.([^/]+[.])*instagram.com', url)

    if x:
        check_url1 = re.match(r'^(https:)[/][/]www.([^/]+[.])*instagram.com[/].*\?hl=[a-z-]{2,5}', url)
        check_url2 = re.match(r'^(https:)[/][/]www.([^/]+[.])*instagram.com$|^(https:)[/][/]www.([^/]+[.])*instagram.com/$', url)
        check_url3 = re.match(r'^(https:)[/][/]www.([^/]+[.])*instagram.com[/][a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,}$', url)
        check_url4 = re.match(r'^(https:)[/][/]www.([^/]+[.])*instagram.com[/][a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,}[/]$', url)

        if check_url3:
            final_url = url + '/?__a=1'

        if check_url4:
            final_url = url + '?__a=1'

        if check_url2:
            final_url = print("Please enter an URL related to a profile")
            exit()

        if check_url1:
            alpha = check_url1.group()
            final_url = re.sub('\\?hl=[a-z-]{2,5}', '?__a=1', alpha)
            
    try:
        if check_url3 or check_url4 or check_url2 or check_url1:
            req = requests.get(final_url)
            get_status = requests.get(final_url).status_code
            get_content = req.content.decode('utf-8')

            if get_status == 200:
                print("\nDownloading the image...")
                find_pp = re.search(r'profile_pic_url_hd\":\"([^\'\" >]+)', get_content)
                pp_link = find_pp.group()
                pp_final = re.sub('profile_pic_url_hd":"', '', pp_link)
                file_size_request = requests.get(pp_final, stream=True)
                file_size = int(file_size_request.headers['Content-Length'])
                block_size = 1024 
                t=tqdm(total=file_size, unit='B', unit_scale=True, desc=username, ascii=True)
                with open(username + '.jpg', 'wb') as f:
                    for data in file_size_request.iter_content(block_size):
                        t.update(len(data))
                        f.write(data)
                t.close()
                #Show image  
                im = Image.open(username +".jpg")  
                im.show() 
                print("Profile picture downloaded successfully")

    except Exception:
        print('error')
Code language: PHP (php)

main.py

import requests
from lxml import html
import re
import sys
import pprint
from profilepic import pp_download

def banner():
    print('\t""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""')
    print('\t                         InstgramProfile data graber                    ')
    print('\t""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""')


def main(username):
    banner()
    '''main function accept instagram username
    return an dictionary object containging profile deatils
    '''

    url = "https://www.instagram.com/{}/?hl=en".format(username)
    page = requests.get(url)
    tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
    data = tree.xpath('//meta[starts-with(@name,"description")]/@content')

    if data:
        data = tree.xpath('//meta[starts-with(@name,"description")]/@content')
        data = data[0].split(', ')
        followers = data[0][:-9].strip()
        following = data[1][:-9].strip()
        posts = re.findall(r'\d+[,]*', data[2])[0]
        name = re.findall(r'name":"([^"]+)"', page.text)[0]
        aboutinfo = re.findall(r'"description":"([^"]+)"', page.text)[0]
        instagram_profile = {
            'success': True,
            'profile': {
                'name': name,
                'profileurl': url,
                'username': username,
                'followers': followers,
                'following': following,
                'posts': posts,
                'aboutinfo': aboutinfo
            }
        }
    else:
        instagram_profile = {
            'success': False,
            'profile': {}
        }
    return instagram_profile


#  python main.py username
if __name__ == "__main__":

    if len(sys.argv) == 2:
        output = main(sys.argv[-1])
        pp_download(sys.argv[-1])
        pprint.pprint(output)
        
    else:
        print('Invalid paramaters Valid Command \n\tUsage : python main.py username')
Code language: PHP (php)

InstgramProfile.py

import requests
from lxml import html
import re
import sys


def main(username):
    '''main function accept instagram username
    return an dictionary object containging profile deatils
    '''
    url = "https://www.instagram.com/{}/?hl=en".format(username)
    page = requests.get(url)
    tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
    data = tree.xpath('//meta[starts-with(@name,"description")]/@content')

    if data:
        data = tree.xpath('//meta[starts-with(@name,"description")]/@content')
        data = data[0].split(', ')
        followers = data[0][:-9].strip()
        following = data[1][:-9].strip()
        posts = re.findall(r'\d+[,]*', data[2])[0]
        name = re.findall(r'name":"\w*[\s]+\w*"', page.text)[-1][7:-1]
        aboutinfo = re.findall(r'"description":"([^"]+)"', page.text)[0]
        instagram_profile = {
            'success': True,
            'profile': {
                'name': name,
                'profileurl': url,
                'username': username,
                'followers': followers,
                'following': following,
                'posts': posts,
                'aboutinfo': aboutinfo
            }
        }
    else:
        instagram_profile = {
            'success': False,
            'profile': {}
        }
    return instagram_profile


#  python InstgramProfile.py username
if __name__ == "__main__":
    '''driver code'''

    if len(sys.argv) == 2:
        output = main(sys.argv[-1])
        print(output)
    else:
        print('=========>Invalid paramaters Valid Comma
Code language: PHP (php)

Execute Program:

python InstgramProfile.py <username>
Code language: HTML, XML (xml)

Output: