instagram scraper, and parsing script

instagram_scrape.php

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+<?php
+
+//returns a big old hunk of JSON from a non-private IG account page.
+function scrape_insta($username) {
+	$insta_source = file_get_contents('http://instagram.com/'.$username);
+	$shards = explode('window._sharedData = ', $insta_source);
+	$insta_json = explode(';</script>', $shards[1]); 
+	$insta_array = json_decode($insta_json[0], TRUE);
+	return $insta_array;
+}
+
+//Supply a username
+$my_account = 'taylorswift'; 
+
+//Do the deed
+$results_array = scrape_insta($my_account);
+
+//An example of where to go from there
+$strs = [];
+for ($x = 0; $x < 5; $x++ ){
+	$arr = [];
+	$tmp = $results_array['entry_data']['ProfilePage'][0]['user']['media']['nodes'][$x];
+	$caption = $tmp['caption'];
+	//date is in unix time
+	$date = (string) $tmp['date'];
+	// this is the pic you want to display
+	$display = $tmp['display_src'];
+	// might be useful?
+	$thumbnail = $tmp['thumbnail_src'];
+	$is_video = $tmp['is_video'];
+	if( $is_video != 1 ){
+		$is_video=0;
+	}
+	$is_video = (string) $is_video;
+	$likes = (string) $tmp['likes']['count'];
+	$arr = [ $caption, $date, $display, $thumbnail, $is_video, $likes ];
+	array_push($strs, $arr);
+
+}
+$str = json_encode( $strs );
+
+$output = fopen("insta.out","w");
+fwrite( $output, $str );
+
+// shamelessly stolen from https://gist.github.com/cosmocatalano/4544576
+?>

parse.py

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+from json import loads,dumps
+from subprocess import call
+import datetime
+
+NUM_POSTS = 5
+
+f = open("insta.out")
+s = f.read()
+insta = loads(s)
+i = 0
+posts = []
+insta_url = 'https://instagram.com/taylorswift'
+insta_image_url = 'static/website/images/icon/insta.png'
+for (caption, unix_time, media_url, thumbnail, is_video, likes) in insta:
+    time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp( int(unix_time) ).strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
+    posts.append( [ caption, insta_url, time, media_url, insta_image_url, likes ] )
+
+posts = posts[:NUM_POSTS]
+sorted( posts, key=lambda x: x[2] ) #sort by unix_time
+for i in range(NUM_POSTS):
+    #saves output file to relevant place
+    call( [ "wget", posts[i][3], "-O", "../src/website/static/website/images/icons/post"+str(i)+".jpg" ] )
+f = open("../src/website/posts.out","w")
+f.write( dumps(posts) )