[Air-L] Have Instagram data

[Anne Helmond]

Hi Bartira,

I recently used the following Instagram tool/scraper: https://github.
com/rarcega/instagram-scraper
It allows for scraping photos for a single or multiple users, but also for
hashtags. You can also retrieve metadata such as comments. It requires a
bit of a technical setup to use, so if you are unfamiliar with running
scripts you might need to ask someone for help. In general these are the
installation instructions (which I tested and worked and which my students
successfully replicated):

   1. Install pip https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/
   2. Install Python 2.7x https://www.python.org/do
   wnloads/release/python-2713/
   3. Then follow install instructions on https://github.com/rarcega/
   instagram-scraper <https://github.com/rarcega/instagram-scraper>
   4. If you follow the steps on the page it should work

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Anne Helmond

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Dr. Anne Helmond | Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture
University of Amsterdam | Turfdraagsterpad 9 | 1012 XT  Amsterdam | The
Netherlands
http://www.uva.nl/profile/a.helmond | http://www.annehelmond.nl/ |
@silvertje

Highlighted publication:

Helmond, Anne. 2015. “The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data
Platform Ready.” Social Media + Society 1 (2). doi:10.1177/2056305115603080.

On 15 November 2017 at 13:39, <air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

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> Hello,
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> Il Will need to take data from Instagram and blogs for my research. I use
> nodexl, tags, R, but i dont know how to take th?se data.
> Some idea?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Bartira Lins
> Doctoral student - Political Science
> UFPE
>