Scrape-Instagram

This is a basic web-scraping tool for Instagram-users.

Current Feature includes :

1. Download all Post of any Public Profile.
2. ..

Description :

Enter any Public Profile username, and download a zip of all posts of that profile. Title of that post-pic will be the Date+(number of people in that post, calculated by Instagram's AI model).

Flow :

1. Takes username as input
2. Checks for an existing Zip file with that username -> if yes, downloads that file in browser
3. Sets-up Puppeteer to launch
4. Opens 'https://www.instagram.com/{username}'
5. Checks if the account is private -> if yes, ends process
6. Scrolls through all posts and maps img.src with img.alt
7. Creates a name for that post with img.alt
8. Downloads all posts and stores them in './images/{username} -{numberOfPosts} posts'
9. Create a {username}.zip of that images folder
10. Deletes Images Folder
11. Redirects page to '/{username}.zip'
12. Browser Downloads that zip file

Tech :

Node.js- Puppeteer,Axios,Express