Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be using the instagram api in flask to download all images and video posts from insta profile and export it as zip file in flask using python. All the full source code of the application is shown below.
Get Started
In order to get started you need to make a new flask project using the below command as shown below
pip install flask
pip install instaloader
pip install python-dotenv
And after that you will see the below directory structure of the flask app as shown below
Now we need to create the .env file and store the login credentials as shown below
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EMAIL=##youremail## PASSWORD=##yourpassword## |
And now inside the app.py file you need to copy paste the below code
app.py
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from flask import Flask, render_template, request import instaloader from dotenv import load_dotenv import os app = Flask(__name__) @app.route("/") def home(): return render_template("home.html") @app.route("/profile", methods=["POST"]) def profile(): # Get the username and password from the form username = request.form["username"] email = os.getenv("EMAIL") password = os.getenv("PASSWORD") # Create an Instaloader instance L = instaloader.Instaloader() # Login to the account L.login(email,password) # Load the profile of the user profile = instaloader.Profile.from_username(L.context, username) # Get the number of posts, followers, and following num_posts = profile.mediacount num_followers = profile.followers num_following = profile.followees # Get the names of the people the user is following following_names = [] for following in profile.get_followees(): following_names.append(following.username) # Get the names of the followers followers_names = [] for follower in profile.get_followers(): followers_names.append(follower.username) return render_template("profile.html", username=username, num_posts=num_posts, num_followers=num_followers, num_following=num_following, following_names=following_names, followers_names=followers_names) if __name__ == "__main__": app.run(debug=True) |
As you can see we have started the flask server at the port number 5000 and then we are displaying the home.html template when the user goes to the / route and then we have the post request to scrape the names of the followers and the following and also the number of posts.
And now we need to make the templates folder and inside it we need to make the home.html file and copy paste the following code
templates/home.html
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<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Instaloader Profile</title> </head> <body> <h1>Instaloader Profile</h1> <form action="{{ url_for('profile') }}" method="POST"> <label for="username">Username:</label> <input type="text" id="username" name="username"> <button type="submit">Submit</button> </form> </body> </html> |
Now we need to make the profile.html template inside the templates folder and copy paste the below code
templates/profile.html
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css"> <div class="container"> <h1 class="text-center">Profile: {{ username }}</h1> <table class="table table-striped"> <tr> <th>Number of Posts</th> <th>Number of Followers</th> <th>Number of Following</th> </tr> <tr> <td>{{ num_posts }}</td> <td>{{ num_followers }}</td> <td>{{ num_following }}</td> </tr> </table> <h2>Download Excel File:</h2> <h2>Following</h2> <ul> {% for following_name in following_names %} <li>{{ following_name }}</li> {% endfor %} </ul> <h2>Followers</h2> <ul> {% for follower_name in followers_names %} <li>{{ follower_name }}</li> {% endfor %} </ul> </div> |
