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169 changes: 169 additions & 0 deletions web_programming/instagram_crawler.py
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#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import json

headers = {
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36"
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"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36"
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) "
"AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36"

}

# Usage
"""
>>> user = Instagram("github")
>>> user.is_verified
True
>>> user.get_biography
Built for developers.

"""


class InstagramUser:
"""
Class Instagram crawl instagram user information
"""

def __init__(self, username):
self.username = username
self.url = f"https://www.instagram.com/{username}/"

def get_json(self):
"""
return json of user information
"""

html = requests.get(self.url, headers=headers)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html.text, "html.parser")
try:
return html_1(soup)
except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
return html_2(soup)

@property
def no_of_followers(self) -> int:
"""
return number of followers
"""

info = self.get_json()
return info["edge_followed_by"]["count"]

@property
def no_of_followings(self) -> int:
"""
return number of followings
"""

info = self.get_json()
return info["edge_follow"]["count"]

@property
def no_of_posts(self) -> int:
"""
return number of posts
"""

info = self.get_json()
return info["edge_owner_to_timeline_media"]["count"]

@property
def get_biography(self) -> str:
"""
return biography of user
"""

info = self.get_json()
return info["biography"]

@property
def get_fullname(self) -> str:
"""
return fullname of the user
"""

info = self.get_json()
return info["full_name"]

@property
def get_username(self) -> str:
"""
return the username of the user
"""

info = self.get_json()
return info["username"]

@property
def get_profile_pic(self) -> str:
"""
return the link of profile picture
"""

info = self.get_json()
return info["profile_pic_url_hd"]

@property
def get_website(self) -> str:
"""
return the users's website link
"""

info = self.get_json()
return info["external_url"]

@property
def get_email(self) -> str:
"""
return the email id of user if
available
"""

info = self.get_json()
return info["business_email"]

@property
def is_verified(self) -> bool:
"""
check the user is verified
"""

info = self.get_json()
return info["is_verified"]

@property
def is_private(self) -> bool:
"""
check user is private
"""

info = self.get_json()
return info["is_private"]


def html_1(soup):
scripts = soup.find_all("script")
main_scripts = scripts[4]
data = main_scripts.contents[0]
info_object = data[data.find('{"config"') : -1]
info = json.loads(info_object)
info = info["entry_data"]["ProfilePage"][0]["graphql"]["user"]
return info


def html_2(soup):
scripts = soup.find_all("script")
main_scripts = scripts[3]
data = main_scripts.contents[0]
info_object = data[data.find('{"config"') : -1]
info = json.loads(info_object)
info = info["entry_data"]["ProfilePage"][0]["graphql"]["user"]
return info


if __name__ == "__main__":
user = InstagramUser("github")
print(f"{user.is_verified = }")
print(f"{user.get_biography = }")