Here is a basic outline of how you can use the Scrapy framework to bulk download videos from Instagram:
- Install Scrapy by running
pip install scrapy
- Create a new Scrapy project using the command
scrapy startproject instagram_scraper
- Navigate to the project directory and create a new spider using the command
scrapy genspider instagram_spider instagram.com
- Edit the spider file (located at
instagram_scraper/spiders/instagram_spider.py
) to specify the links to the Instagram posts that you want to scrape. You can do this by setting thestart_urls
variable to a list of URLs. - In the spider file, define the
parse
method to extract the video URLs from the HTML of the Instagram post page. You can use thexpath
method of theSelector
object to select elements from the HTML and theextract
method to extract the video URL. - In the spider file, define the
download_video
method to download the video using theurlretrieve
function from theurllib
module. - In the main Scrapy script (located at
instagram_scraper/main.py
), use theCrawlSpider
class to crawl through the Instagram post pages and call thedownload_video
method for each video.
Here is some example code to get you started:
import scrapy
from urllib.request import urlretrieve
class InstagramSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = “instagram_spider”
start_urls = [
“https://www.instagram.com/p/B01GcmDH1CN/”,
“https://www.instagram.com/p/B01Dp-_nXX9/”
]
def parse(self, response):
video_url = response.xpath(‘//video/@src’).extract_first()
self.download_video(video_url)
def download_video(self, video_url):
urlretrieve(video_url, “video.mp4”)
how to download video from instgram I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.