Instagram Scraper
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Instagram Scraper
Scrape and download Instagram posts, profiles, places, hashtags, photos, and comments. Get data from Instagram using one or more Instagram URLs or search queries. Export scraped data, run the scraper via API, schedule and monitor runs or integrate with other tools.
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IG blocking images
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When I try to show the URL images on my app it's being blocked by IG how can I do this? Thanks!
Hi!
All media URLs from Instagram expire in 2-3 days to prevent "hot linking". If you want to keep media, please download files ASAP and host somewhere else.
I will close the issue now, but if there is anything else we can help with, please let us know.
jorisw
All media URLs from Instagram expire in 2-3 days to prevent "hot linking".
Do you mean 2-3 days after the API call was made?
What about the images.apifyusercontent.com CDN URLs I see when opening a post image from the result set table in the actor console? Could those be fed back into the API response so we can use those URLs?
Erik Funder Carstensen (weuts)
Hi 😊
We don't know exactly how instagram rotates their media URLs, but the images are usually there a couple of days after we have scraped them. If you want the underlying images you'll have to download them 😌
I'm afraid you can't rely on what is in images.apifyusercontent.com - it's an internal service, and we may at any point change what and how long things are cached there 😕
Good luck with the app 😊
