Instasharp

Instasharp is an open-source web-scraping API for .NET — used to obtain a wide range of metadata from Instagram profiles.

The scraper works regardless of authentication, therefore, a username or password is not required.

This API is used in another project: Instaview — the only Instagram profile viewer you need.

Features

Instasharp can:

• Search for profiles matching a specified username
• Acquire metadata from a user's profile
• Download a user's profile picture in high-definition
• Work without authentication

Installation

• Download it from NuGet, here...
• ...or add it via the .NET CLI using dotnet add package codedbycurtis-Instasharp

Usage

Supported Runtimes

• .NET Core 5.0
• .NET Core 3.1
• .NET Framework >= 4.6.1
• .NET Standard >= 2.0

Dependencies

• Json.NET
• (Depending on the target framework, other dependencies may be required.)

Examples

Obtaining a specific profile's metadata

Here is a short example of how to obtain metadata from an Instagram user's profile:

using Instasharp;

// SessionID is an optional parameter that may be required
// to ensure Instagram does not re-direct requests to the
// login page
var sessionId = "0123456789ABC&%!";
var client = new InstagramClient(sessionId);
var username = "hey_its_curtis";

// The URL of the user's profile may also be used here instead
// of the username
var profile = await client.GetProfileMetadataAsync(username);

Searching for profiles matching a specified username

using Instasharp;
using Instasharp.Search;

var sessionId = "0123456789ABC&%!";
var client = new InstagramClient(sessionId);
var username = "hey_its_curtis";

var results = await client.SearchForProfilesAsync(username).CollectAsync();