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instacrawler-mongo

This is a nodejs based crawler that will crawl instagram data based on hashtag to locally installed mongodb. Please use this for educational purpose only. Access token of instagram must be obtained, and NOT in sandbox mode. For more information, please refer to https://www.instagram.com/developer/

Requirement

  • Make sure mongodb is installed
  • Make sure node and npm is installed

Pre-requisite

  • Have a hashtag to crawl in mind
  • Have access_token from instagram developer which is not in sandbox mode
  • No access control to your mongo (Can be accessed without password)

Installation and usage

  • Install dependencies npm install
  • Crawl the hashtag to your mongo node . <HASHTAG> <ACCESS-TOKEN>