instagram-scraper-api

Reusable wrapper for extracting Instagram profile and post data using modern import/export syntax and the instagram-scraper-api2 provider from RapidAPI.

Installation

npm install @dukebot/instagram-scraper-api

Usage

 import { InstagramScraperAPI } from "@dukebot/instagram-scraper-api";

const scraper = new InstagramScraperAPI({
  apiHost: "instagram-scraper-api2.p.rapidapi.com",
  apiKey: process.env.RAPIDAPI_KEY,
});

const user = await scraper.getUserInfo("instagram");
const posts = await scraper.getUserPosts("instagram", 5);

console.log(user.id);
console.log(user.username);
console.log(posts.length);

API

new InstagramScraperAPI({ apiHost, apiKey, logInfoFn })

• apiHost: provider host in RapidAPI.
• apiKey: RapidAPI API key.
• logInfoFn: optional function for logging traces.

getUserInfo(usernameOrId)

Returns a User instance.

getUserPosts(usernameOrId, numPosts)

Returns an array of Post. If numPosts is provided, the result is limited to that number.

Publish To npm

1. Run npm login.
2. Run npm publish --access public.