Instagram PHP Scraper

instagram-php-scraper is a simple file written in PHP that scrapes and show in a JSON format an instagram user's photos, likes, videos, etc. Use responsibly.

Installation

1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/jonlov/instagram-php-scraper.git

2. Copy the src folder into your PHP server.

3. Change $user variable in the php file and put the username from instagram that you would like to get information from $user = "USERNAME_HERE";

4. Visit instagram-php-scraper.php on your browser.

Basic Usage

You could make a Javascript function that ajax the url where the php file is to get the information from the JSON like an API

function instagramAjax() {
    return $.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        // REPLACE THIS WITH THE URL OF THE instagram-php-scraper.php FILE
        url: "api/instagram-php-scraper.php",
        dataType: "json",
        success: function(res) {
            // Just console.log the res or have a look to the example.json
            // on the repository to see all the information that scrapes from instagram

            // console.log(res);
            // display_src
            // thumbnail_src
            // likes
            // date
            // is_video
            // caption

            var html = "";
            // For 9 images do the following
            for (var i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
                // This will be the url of a picture
                // 'https://www.instagram.com/p/' + res[i].code + '/'

                // This will be the png file of a picture
                // res[i].display_src
            }
        },
        error: function(res) {
            // errors .....
        }
    });
}

Done!

License

This project is licensed under MIT.