library insta-scraper

robert-grubb/insta-scraper

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

information

Credits to postaddictme/instagram-php-scraper for base, _(*1)

Installation

composer.phar require robert-grubb/insta-scraper, _(*2)

or, _(*3)

composer require robert-grubb/insta-scraper, _(*4)

Instantiation

use InstaScraper\Insta;

$Instagram = new Insta();

Documentation

For main package documentation: https://github.com/postaddictme/instagram-php-scraper, _(*5)

Fork Information

This fork includes the following:, _(*6)

• getMediaWithTag(), _(*7)

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

• Fixes getMedias issue (Because instagram removed the /media page), _(*8)

  • 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, _(*9)

  • 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