Getting Instagram profile details using Python

Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook. In this article, we will learn how can we get Instagram profile details using web scraping. Python provides powerful tools for web scraping, we will be using BeautifulSoup here.
Modules required and Installation:
Requests : 
Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs. 

pip install requests

Beautiful Soup: 
Beautiful Soup is a library that makes it easy to scrape information from web pages. It sits atop an HTML or XML parser, providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. 

pip install beautifulsoup4

Explanation – 
For a given user name data scraping will be done then parsing of data will be done so that output can be readable. The output will be description i.e followers count, following count, count of posts.
Below is the implementation – 

Python3

# importing libraries
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

# instagram URL
URL = "https://www.instagram.com/{}/"

# parse function
def parse_data(s):

    # creating a dictionary
    data = {}

    # splitting the content
    # then taking the first part
    s = s.split("-")[0]

    # again splitting the content
    s = s.split(" ")

    # assigning the values
    data['Followers'] = s[0]
    data['Following'] = s[2]
    data['Posts'] = s[4]

    # returning the dictionary
    return data

# scrape function
def scrape_data(username):

    # getting the request from url
    r = requests.get(URL.format(username))

    # converting the text
    s = BeautifulSoup(r.text, "html.parser")

    # finding meta info
    meta = s.find("meta", property ="og:description")

    # calling parse method
    return parse_data(meta.attrs['content'])

# main function
if __name__=="__main__":

    # user name
    username = "geeks_for_geeks"

    # calling scrape function
    data = scrape_data(username)

    # printing the info
    print(data)

Output :

{'Followers': '120.2k', 'Following': '0', 'Posts': '702'}