Crate instagram_scraper_rs

Instagram-scraper-rs

instagram-scraper-rs is a Rust library that scrapes and downloads an instagram user’s photos and videos. Use responsibly. It is basically a 1:1 copy of the Python Instagram-scraper cli application.

Features

• Query profile information
• Collect the user’s profile picture
• Collect users’ posts
• Collect users’ stories
• Totally async

Get started

Add instagram-scraper-rs to your Cargo.toml 🦀

instagram-scraper-rs = "^0.1.0"

Supported features are:

• no-log: disable logging
• native-tls (default): use native-tls for reqwest
• rustls: use rustls for reqwest (you must disable default features)

Instagram scraper setup

use instagram_scraper_rs::InstagramScraper;

// setup the scraper
let mut scraper = InstagramScraper::default()
    .authenticate_with_login(username, password);
scraper.login().await?;
// get user info; required to query other data
let user = scraper.scrape_userinfo("tamadogecoin").await?;
// collect user's stories and up to 10 highlighted stories
let stories = scraper.scrape_user_stories(&user.id, 10).await?;
// collect last 10 posts
let posts = scraper.scrape_posts(&user.id, 10).await?;
// logout
scraper.logout().await;

Structs

Comment

Comment associated to a post

InstagramScraper

instagram scraper client

Post

User post

Stories

Instagram stories

Story

StorySource

User

Describes the web profile query response

Enums

InstagramScraperError

Instagram scraper library error

Type Aliases

InstagramScraperResult