# huaying/instagram-crawler

Get Instagram posts/profile/hashtag data without using Instagram API

Repository: https://github.com/huaying/instagram-crawler
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/instagram-crawler
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: instagram, instagram-crawler, python, webdriver, instagram-liker, autoliker, auto, likers, instagram-scraper, instagram-bot, scraper
Last push: 2024-05-03T19:40:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3274, "days_push": 852, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1350, forks 300 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:28.135979+00:00)

## What it is
A Python command-line crawler that scrapes Instagram posts, profiles, and hashtag data using Selenium and ChromeDriver, without the official Instagram API. It also includes an auto-liker bot that likes posts automatically.

## Use cases
- scrape instagram posts without api
- download instagram profile data to
- fetch hashtag posts from instagram
- get instagram post comments and likers
- automatically like instagram posts
- export instagram user posts with captions and photos

## When to choose
- you need Instagram data without API access or API rate limits
- you want a simple CLI to export posts, profiles, or hashtags as JSON
- you need to fetch comments, likers, or mentions from posts

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained, guaranteed-working scraper (it breaks when Instagram changes its site)
- you need high-volume scraping at scale (browser automation is slow and rate-limited)
- you prefer official API compliance or need to avoid account-based automation risks

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, cli, browser-extension
- domain: crawlers, social-media
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: instagram, selenium, chromedriver, scraper, autoliker, automation

## Member repositories
- huaying/instagram-crawler (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:28.135979+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:42:17.123911+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/huaying/instagram-crawler (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:28.135979+00:00, sha 1c3fb02043e1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.