instuki ~ scrape Instagram for benchmarking

extraction of public engagement data from Instagram profiles.

basic diagnostic of the latest posts of one or more Instagram profiles, such as frequeny of posting and overall engagement.

on a logged in Instagram session, open the developer tools and click on the application tab:

then select the URL under cookies and copy the string on sessionid

create an environmental variable with the copied sessionid:

$ export SESSION_ID={session_id}

it's important to remember that when set this way, environmental variables aren't persistent!

query for profile metrics by running the script with the -u argument followed by one or more usernames:

$ python3 main.py -u "{username_1, username_2}"

python.