Getting Started

Supported Platforms

insta_hashtag_crawler has been tested against the following platforms:

• OS : Ubuntu 17.04 LTS, Windows 10
• Python : cPython >= 3.6

Installation

via pip (recommended)

• When python 3 is the only python distribution installed on the system:

pip install insta_hashtag_crawler

• With multiple versions of python distributions:
  (replace python3 with the version you want)

python3 -m pip install insta_hashtag_crawler

• Using venv:
  • On Linux

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install insta_hashtag_crawler

• On Windows

python3 -m venv .venv
cd .venv/Scripts
activate
pip install insta_hashtag_crawler

via setup.py

git clone https://gitlab.com/point1304/insta_hashtag_crawler.git
cd insta_hashtag_crawler
python3 setup.py bdist
python3 setup.py install

How to

insta_hashtag_crawler is shipped with a very simple command line tool
and this is what you are going to mostly make the use of.

You can start crawling immediately on your shell with:

insta-crawl your-hashtag

This command will generates a series of csv formatted data in your
"current working directory". csv file name will be: ${hashtag}yyyymmdd(${number}).csv

Optional Arguments

• [--dir] [-d]
  You can set the directory where crawling results will be generated
  by using [--dir] [-d] option.
  The [--dir] options can take an absolute or relative path as an argument.

insta-crawl --dir /some/path/to/dir hashtag
insta-crawl --dir some/relative/path hashtag

• [--quiet] [-q]
  Turn on the [--quiet] [-q] flag if you want to mute the crawling logs,
  which by default are directed to the stdout. This option will redirect any logs to OS-relevant dev/null.