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Instagram Post Scraper

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Scrape Instagram posts. Just add one or more Instagram usernames and get your data in seconds including text, hashtags, mentions, comments, images, URLs, likes, locations, and metadata. Export scraped data, run the scraper via API, schedule and monitor runs or integrate with other tools.

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from $1.60 / 1,000 posts

469

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44K

Monthly users

5.4K

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>99%

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Posts crwaling inconsistencies

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flattering_marigold opened this issue
2 months ago

When scrapping for posts, in a post of type "Video", what is the difference between videoViewCount and videoPlayCount??

alexey avatar

Hi!

Play count is officially supposed to replace View count https://creators.facebook.com/introducing-views-to-simplify-content

IG deprecating it, so counter still appears sometimes somewhere, as in your run https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/GWBvTLNr2kib1lvcN/items?clean=true&format=json

The actor is just following actual data from IG, so as long as values are presented, we should save them.

I will close the issue now, but if there is anything else we can help with, please let us know.

alexey avatar

p.s. View counter in the latest posts-videos in profile details is still displayed, but no longer valid. Please scrape regular full posts to get the play counter instead.