Instagram Scraper

• Get Instagram profile from public webpages.

Configuration

• cp config/zproxy.json.example config/zproxy.json

Technology

• Node
  • Node Version Manager Tool - nvm
  • Node Version: 18.1.0
• Puppeteer
  • Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome
• Proxy: Residential Zone
• Typescript
  • TypeScript is JavaScript with syntax for types. Doc
  • Node.Js With TypeScript

Structure

  build
    └── index.js
    └── ...
  config
    └── config.json
    └── zproxy.json
  src
    └── api
        ├── routes.ts
    └── pages
        ├── identifiers.ts
        ├── index.ts
        ├── parse.ts
        ├── userTemplate.ts
    └── environment
        ├── config.ts
        ├── zproxy.ts
    └── utils
        ├── index.ts
        ├── ipConfig.ts
        ├── scrapedLogger.ts
    └── index.ts
  types
    └── index.d.ts

• build: The latest generated javascript code.
• config: Configuration.
• src: The main coding part of the scraper, written by typescript.
• types: Type or Interface definition.

Scripts Overview

npm run start:dev

Starts the application in development using nodemon and ts-node to do cold reloading.

npm run build

Builds the app at build, cleaning the folder first.

npm run start

Starts the app in production by first building the project with npm run build, and then executing the compiled JavaScript at build/index.js.

Usage Examples

env TEST_IDS=instagram,cristiano,kyliejenner node build/index.js

Contributors

• Encore