Download Instagram profile pic using Python
Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Python provides powerful tools for web scraping of Instagram.
Modules required and Installation:
requests:
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pip install requests
concept –
For a given user profile, open view-source and find “profile_pic_url_hd” . To find press ctrl+f and type “profile_pic_url_hd” the link with it is our data or profile pic.
The link will look like :
https://scontent-bom1-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/d2df9b2d162969e87200984ee763cc27/5DC590F2/t51.2885-19/s320x320/61851740_845288152518430_7068999703693623296_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-bom1-1.cdninstagram.com
Below is the stepwise implementation of the project:
Step 1: import all dependence
Python3
import requestsfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bsimport jsonimport randomimport os.path |
Step 2: Ask for username and send a response to Instagram.
Python3
inta_username= input('enter username of instagram : ')response = requests.get(f"{insta_url}/{inta_username}/") |
Step 3: if the response is ok, find profile photo link
(Note: replace ‘\\u0026’ with ‘&’ in the string_url to remove bad URL timestamp or bad URL hash error)
Python3
if response.ok: html=response.text bs_html=bs(html, features="lxml") bs_html=bs_html.text index=bs_html.find('profile_pic_url_hd')+21 remaining_text=bs_html[index:] remaining_text_index=remaining_text.find('requested_by_viewer')-3 string_url=remaining_text[:remaining_text_index].replace("\\u0026","&") print(string_url, "\n \n downloading..........") |
Step 4: Now, create a loop and download photo.
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while True: filename='pic'+str(random.randint(1, 100000))+'.jpg' file_exists = os.path.isfile(filename) if not file_exists: with open(filename, 'wb+') as handle: response = requests.get(string_url, stream=True) if not response.ok: print(response) for block in response.iter_content(1024): if not block: break handle.write(block) else: continue breakprint("\n downloading completed ..............") |
Output:
Other Method :
We can download profile pic of any Instagram account using instaloader module by just giving Instagram handle of the user.
First we need to install instaloader module :
pip install instaloader
Example:
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import instaloaderig = instaloader.Instaloader()dp = input("Enter Insta username : ")ig.download_profile(dp , profile_pic_only=True) |
Output : Profile pic will be downloaded in the the same directory when we enter the input user id.
