[Air-L] Have Instagram data

Wed Nov 15 06:47:45 PST 2017

Dear Anne,

Thanks for sharing the scraping tool! Instagram’s API change in 2016 was an unfortunate event for many researchers, in my opinion. I have struggled finding a work around for a very long time.

Dear Bartira,
I used Netlytic <https://netlytic.org/> .It is not as robust as the method Anne suggested because I don’t know how do they do the scraping and if there is anything left out. There is a bit of a learning curve and effort you need to put to clean csv file it gives. What kind of data are you interested in? If you want to download photos please do write back. I have used medialinks Netlytic gave me to scrape photos with a script.

Best,

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Ayşenur Ataman

Ph.D. Candidate in Developmental Psychology
The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Research Associate with Children’s Environment Research Group<http://cergnyc.org/>

www.aysenurataman.com<http://www.aysenurataman.com>

On Nov 15, 2017, at 8:00 AM, Anne Helmond <anne at digitalmethods.net<mailto:anne at digitalmethods.net>> wrote:

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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Highlighted publication:

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

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Hello,

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

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