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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onlyPostsForLastValue is not returning the results from last day(yesterday)
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Hi, I am running the Instagram scraper and passing this input. However, I noticed that it scraped data from a random day instead of just from yesterday: "onlyPostsForLastTimeUnit": "days", "onlyPostsForLastValue": 1
Hello, thank you for your feedback. On further inspection, could you please link us the run where this happened so we can investigate futher?
It is possible that the posts that were outside of the time range were pinned posts, which don't apply the time filters. You can figure out if a post has been pinned by the isPinned field on each item.
Lingbot_7
there are so many in my account, but you can refer to this one. This was run on 2024-09-17 17:40 with this input: { .... "enhanceUserSearchWithFacebookPage": false, "isUserReelFeedURL": false, "isUserTaggedFeedURL": false, "onlyPostsForLastTimeUnit": "days", "onlyPostsForLastValue": 1, "resultsType": "posts", "searchType": "hashtag" }
In the output of this run you can see so many old posts as you can see in the picture as well.
https://console.apify.com/organization/3GJggKawfAiNAa6HR/actors/runs/DqSCDk8VhTWnbkyMk#input
Hello, that is most likely caused by the pinned posts being included. You can add "skipPinnedPosts": true to your input to skip over them, if you wish.
Lingbot_7
thats not only about pinnedposts some of them don't have any pinned post but still can see old posts in output, are you sure if I will pass this input: "onlyPostsForLastTimeUnit": "days", "onlyPostsForLastValue": 1, It will fetch the record only from yesterday?
Hello, thank you a lot for your patience. I have investigated the issue some more, and when I try running the exact same input as you provided in your run, but with the skipPinnedPosts added, there is not a single item that would be older than one day.
But when that field is not added, it scrapes the posts with the specific time range, and adds the pinnedPosts on top, which do not go through the same time filter.
Lingbot_7
Ok thank you so if I would be adding this: "onlyPostsForLastTimeUnit": "days", "onlyPostsForLastValue": 1 with skipPinnedPosts. It will only scrape posts of yesterday right?
Yes, that is correct.
