Instahunter

Instahunter

Instahunter is a CLI app that can fetch posts and user data from Instagram.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

To run the app from source - Git is needed to clone the repository on your machine. Python and Click are required to run the app from the source.

Installing

After installing git , clone the repository on your machine

git clone https://github.com/KSSBro/instahunter.git

After installing Python , install Click with pip

pip install click

Usage

Running from the source:

python instahunter.py

Running from the executable:

instahunter

To get help use --help :

instahunter --help

instahunter getposts --help

Getting Posts

Use the command getposts and option -tag to search for posts.

instahuter getposts -tag *the_hashtag_you_want_to_search_posts_for*

Getting User Data

Use the command getuser to get user data.

Options:

• -via : username(default) - fetch data with username, id - fetch date with user id
• --value : username or id you want to fetch data with, depending upon your choice in -via

instahunter getuser -via *username or id* --value *value*

Getting User Posts

Use the command getuserposts and option -username to get posts.

instahunter getuserposts -username *username*

All the above commands will display data in the terminal itself.

Creating a file with the data

To create a file with the data retrieved use -create-file and --file-type options along with any option.

Options:

-create-file
--file-type

instahunter getposts -tag *hashtag* -create-file *true or false* --file-type *json or text*

Release

v1.2 has been released. The executable is available in the release section.

Built with

• Python
• Click
• Pyinstaller (Executable)

Contributing

Fork the repository and open a pull request to contribute. Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Authors

• KSSBro - Github

License

MIT