[Air-L] Tool for collecting Instagram images/websites/data?

[Anatoliy]

Hi Rainer,

As others already noted, it may be hard to find a single tool to achieve this. 
In addition to some previous suggestions, here is another solution to collect/download Instagram images related to a particular hashtag/location:

1) Use Netlytic (https://netlytic.org) to collect Instagram posts/comments (and their associated metadata, including image urls); there is a video tutorial on how to use it at https://netlytic.org/home/?page_id=11280 

2) Export the dataset collected with Netlytic to your computer (as a CSV file) and open it in Excel;

3) Copy and paste the "medialink" column into a new text file (let's call it "imgurls.txt");

Note: since Netlytic collects all comments related to your search query (hashtag or location), you can use Excel's Data->"Removes Duplicates" feature to remove duplicate image URLs (there may be multiple comments posted in response to a single image/post);

4) Open this text file "imgurls.txt" in Firefox (Ctrl+O), and then use the DownThemAll plugin in Firefox (right click on the page ->context menu) to download all of the links/images into a single folder on your computer  (you need to install the DownThemAll plugin first from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/developers ). 

Hope it helps, 
Anatoliy

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From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Maurice Vergeer
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2016 5:24 AM
To: Rainer Hillrichs <hillrichs at uni-mannheim.de>
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] Tool for collecting Instagram images/websites/data?

maybe the R package instaR:
https://github.com/pablobarbera/instaR/blob/master/examples.R
For longterm applications you could learn web scraping with R package rvest (there ar more options for web scraping) The quick-and-dirty method is search a tag on Instagram with a browser, scroll down multiple times to load as much pictures as you need, then save the resulting Instagram page in a new specific folder, which then contains all pictures with that  specific tag.

hope that helps



On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Rainer Hillrichs <hillrichs at uni-mannheim.de
> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I searched on the list and on the web but couldn't find anything: I'm 
> looging for a tool that collects Instagram images, websites, and data 
> associated with a specific tag. Basically, I want to type in a tag and 
> end up with a folder full of images, websites, and a table with data 
> (e.g. user name, date posted, URL, other tags). I already suspect that 
> is a lot to ask for ;-) Even a simpler tool would be a good start! As 
> long as I don't have to to end up saving individual images, websites, 
> and typiing/copying stuff into a table.
>
> Suggestions very much appreciated!
> Rainer
>
>
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