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Instagram Without APIs

Instagram Scraping, no credentials required

A simple library to get unlimited instagram public pictures by every user without api, without credentials (just token from cookies), just Instagram Scraping (with cookie and image data in base64).

You can get the latest pictures/information from an account or a single picture/information by id.

🎮 Demo / Example

⚖️ Licensed under MIT

🤓 Author @orsifrancesco

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📦 How to get Instagram Cookie

• Login to Instagram
• Go to your https://instagram/yourUsername
• Open your Browser Console (on Chrome just pressing F12)
  1. Select the "Network" tab
  2. Search and click on "timeline/" file; if it is empty just refresh the page
  3. Select "Headers" bar
  4. Be sure the file is Request Method "POST" (if it is "OPTIONS" search the other "timeline/" file in the list)
  5. Scroll down and select "Request Headers" tab
  6. Copy all the code after the word "cookie: " and paste it on _cookie variable
  7. Copy all the code after the word "user-agent: " and paste it on _userAgent variable
  8. Copy all the code after the word "x-ig-app-id: " and paste it on _xIgAppId variable

- don't share your cookie code with anyone!!! it is the same of your credentials

• That's it, enjoy :)

🎮 Demo / Example

Although you can get the URLs of the images, Instagram doesn't give you the possibility to include and showing those images on your projects (they will be automatically blocked from their servers).
To solve this problem you will get all the URLs and all the images data in base64.
You can easily show the image data on your project with the following snippets of code:

<img src="data:image/jpg;base64, hereYourBase64String.."/>

.example { background-image: url('data:image/jpg;base64, hereYourBase64String..'); }

Check https://orsifrancesco.github.io/instagram-without-api/how-to-show-base64-images.html for Base64 example.

🕹️ JSON outputs

output example for fetch on https://github.com/orsifrancesco/instagram-without-api/blob/master/instagram-cache.json

[
  {
    "id": "2696840872190940431",
    "time": 1635708506,
    "imageUrl": "https://scontent-lcy1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/p1080x1080/249938862_1214260935751176_32...",
    "likes": 18,
    "comments": 0,
    "link": "https://www.instagram.com/p/CVtGnwashUP/",
    "text": "#helloworld #domain #check",
    "image": "/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/7QB8UGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4QklNBAQAAAAAAGA............."
  },
  {
    "id": "2654027113529608497",
    "time": 1630604708,
    "imageUrl": "https://scontent-lcy1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/p1080x1080/241221239_8640769...",
    "likes": 38,
    "comments": 0,
    "link": "https://www.instagram.com/p/CTU_5keMAkx/",
    "text": "#london #uk #unitedkingdom #tube #underground #overground #sunrise #morning #morningvibes #sky #metro #line #prospective",
    "image": "/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/7QB8UGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4Qkl..........."
  }
]

output example for fetchByIdUrl or fetchById

[
  {
    "id": "289855367...",
    "width": 1385,
    "height": 1731,
    "imageUrl": "https:\/\/scontent-lhr8-1.cdnin...",
    "time": 1659754546,
    "topLikers": [
        "franko"
    ],
    "likes": 32,
    "commentCount": 2,
    "comments": [
      {
        "time": 1659756069,
        "text": "This is a comment...",
        "user": {
          "username": "test",
          "fullName": "DearTest",
          "imageUrl": "https:\/\/scontent-lhr8-1.cdninstagram.com..."
        }
      }
    ],
    "link": "https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cgczi6qMuh1\/",
    "text": "If you know it, you know it...",
    "user": {
      "username": "orsifrancesco",
      "fullName": "Frank",
      "imageUrl": "https:\/\/scontent-lhr8-1.cd..."
    },
    "image": "\/9j\/4AAQSkZJR....Q=="
  }
]

⚖️ License

Licensed under MIT

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