Instagram Explore Publications Scraper

Instagram Explore Publications Scraper

Generate a list of publication from the Explore "For you"

Access their data: caption, likes, comments, location, date, instagram id, facebook id, music information, location ..

Helps you scale analytics on instagram publications and social networks overall

How to extract cookies from your browser

• install EditThisCookie chrome extension
• login to your account and go to your clearbit home page
• Use the extension and click "export"
• Paste the cookies in the input "cookies" from the actor

The apify documentation has a tutorial on how to do it with screenshots, https://docs.apify.com/tutorials/log-in-by-transferring-cookies#export-your-cookies go to the export your cookies section

Inputs

• cookies: a list of cookies exported to your clipboard with the chrome extension "EditThisCookie" from your session while logged in instagram

Outputs sample

1{
2  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/C5kQ_VFLps2/",
3  "reel_id": "C5kQ_VFLps2",
4  "reel_pk": "3342871544122481462",
5  "organic_tracking_token": "eyJ2ZXJzaW9uIjo1LCJwYXlsb2FkIjp7ImlzX2FuYWx5dGljc190cmFja2VkIjp0cnVlLCJ1dWlkIjoiMzY3Y2NhMzBmOWY3NDMxMmIyNGVjNDc5YTkyMTRmNDgzMzQyODcxNTQ0MTIyNDgxNDYyIiwic2VydmVyX3Rva2VuIjoiMTcxMjgzODU0NjE2NXwzMzQyODcxNTQ0MTIyNDgxNDYyfDEzNDc2NDc5NjA4fDQ5ZTdhMzkxMDc5YTFmZDNlZTBhYTZiNzM0ZmQ1Y2U1MDk2NGMxODQ0ZjAzNzM5NmFjNGY1ZjdjODZlNWE2M2MifSwic2lnbmF0dXJlIjoiIn0=",
6  "actor_username": "asianhappyhour",
7  "actor_fb_id": "17841406513504414",
8  "actor_insta_id": "6675313116",
9  "actor_is_verified": false,
10  "owner_username": "asianhappyhour",
11  "owner_insta_id": "6675313116",
12  "fb_aggregated_like_count": 0,
13  "fb_aggregated_comment_count": 0,
14  "location": "",
15  "publication_type": "clips",
16  "commercial_status": "not_commercial",
17  "location_fb_place_id": "",
18  "location_address": "",
19  "location_city": "",
20  "location_lng": "",
21  "location_lat": "",
22  "creation_date_utc": "2024-04-10 03:58:36",
23  "timestamp": "2024-04-10T03:58:36.000Z",
24  "device_date_utc": "",
25  "device_timestamp": 1712721361973267,
26  "integrity_review_decision": "pending",
27  "likes": 430,
28  "comments": 32,
29  "views": 30298,
30  "caption": "Dating in 2024 be like 😩👩🏻‍❤️‍👨🏻 has dating been hard for you recently? \n\n👉 Follow @asianhappyhour for more contents. \n\n📹: @hanavocado_ \n\n#dating #datingmemes #funnyvideos",
31  "music_artist": "",
32  "music_title": "",
33  "music_is_explicit": "",
34  "music_is_trending": "",
35  "audio_artist_username": "asianhappyhour",
36  "audio_artist_id": "6675313116",
37  "audio_title": "Original audio",
38  "audio_is_explicit": false,
39  "audio_is_trending": false