heartbeat-dev/insta-scraper

Instagram PHP Scraper. Get account information, photos and videos without any authorization

v1.70 2019-09-10 18:55 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.4.0
• mashape/unirest-php: 3.0.*
• phpfastcache/phpfastcache: 5.0.*

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: 5.5.*

MIT

• Matt Grubb

• scraper
• instagram

README

Credits to postaddictme/instagram-php-scraper for base

Installation

composer.phar require robert-grubb/insta-scraper

or

composer require robert-grubb/insta-scraper

Instantiation

use InstaScraper\Insta;

$Instagram = new Insta();

Documentation

For main package documentation: https://github.com/postaddictme/instagram-php-scraper

Fork Information

This fork includes the following:

• getMediaWithTag()

  • This method will find the first media with a specific tag.

• Fixes getMedias issue (Because instagram removed the /media page)

  • Now pulls from their timeline data via a graphql request, then grabs the data for each array item. (Increases load times, but not by much)

• Better exceptions

  • For better understand of what is actually happening when an error occurs, InstagramEncodedException is thrown. You can catch this exception and use InstagramEncodedException->getDecodedMessage() that will return the following:

[
    [error] => true,
    [error_code] => 404,
    [error_reason] => 'User does not exist'
]

Getting a media item with specific hashtag:

use InstaScraper\Insta;
$Instagram = new Insta();
$post = $Instagram->getMediaWithTag('test', '#awesome');
var_dump($post); // Returns InstaScraper\Model\Media Object