InstagramResearch

📄 Research repository for new instagram project

Disclaimer: This repository is only for educational purpose. Anyone who abuses the information provided here does so on his own behalf. I am in no way responsible for it.

This repository documents the, up to this point, found endpoints that could be useful for Instagram automation to improve it's fault tolerance and performance.

The goal is to not only remove the unnecessary use of selenium to find elements to click but also improve the amount of data that can be retrieved in each run. Once we reach a point where a profile/post only has to be opened to actually like, comment and follow the profile, we minimized the amount of elements that need an upgrade on an Instagram webpage change.

Note: This is just an assumption, but the GraphQL endpoints most likely are the same for the mobile webpage. This means that once it's chagned in the code, we can easily switch to the mobile version which allows us to build a post scheduler into Instagram.
The final goal for this is to have a full documentation of the GraphQL Endpoints that get used by the Instagram page.

Basic Information that are displayed when accessing a page

Schema:

https://instagram.com/<path>?__a=1

Examples

# Explore tags
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/<tag_name>/?__a=1

# Post page
https://www.instagram.com/p/<id_of_post>/?__a=1

# When logged in, feed
https://www.instagram.com/?__a=1

# Own/other profiles
https://www.instagram.com/<userame>/?__a=1

GraphQL modifiable data endpoints

Schema:

https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_id=<query_id>&variables=%7B<parameters>%7D

QueryID	Endpoint
17875800862117404	posts for tags
17874545323001329	user following
17851374694183129	user followers
17888483320059182	user posts
17864450716183058	likes on posts
17852405266163336	comments on posts
17842794232208280	posts on feed
17847560125201451	feed profile suggestions
17863787143139595	post suggestions

Available parameters:

• id (user_id)
• tag_name (only one needed for explore tags)
• first (amount of nodes to get)
• after (haven't completely figured out, but looks like this is for the offset, use the cursor field)
• shortcode (used for the "on posts" queries like "likes on post")

Needed for the feedpage

• filter_followed_friends
• fetch_suggested_count
• fetch_like
• fetch_media_count
• fetch_comment_count
• fetch_media_item_count
• has_stories

Examples

# Explore tags
https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_id=17875800862117404&variables=%7B%22tag_name%22%3A%22<tag_name>%22%2C%22first%22%3A<num_of_posts>%7D

# Note: Still have to figure out how to get this data without using selenium once logged in.
# **Only works with logged in user**

# User profile following
https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_id=17874545323001329&variables=%7B%22id%22%3A%22<user_id>%22%2C%22first%22%3A<num_of_following>%7D

# User profile followers
https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_id=17874545323001329&variables=%7B%22id%22%3A%22<user_id>%22%2C%22first%22%3A<num_of_followers>%7D

# User profile posts
https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_id=17888483320059182&variables=%7B%22id%22%3A%22<user_id>%22%2C%22first%22%3A<num_of_posts>%7D

# Post page likes
https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_id=17864450716183058&variables=%7B%22shortcode%22%3A%22<id_of_post>%22X2C%22first%22%3A<num_of_likes>%7D

# Post page comments
https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_id=17852405266163336&variables={"shortcode":"<id_of_post>","first":<num_of_comments>}

# Feed posts
https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_id=17842794232208280&variables={%22fetch_media_item_count%22:<num_of_posts>,%22fetch_comment_count%22:<num_of_comments_per_post>,%22fetch_like%22:<num_of_likers_per_post>}

# Profile suggestios in feed
https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_id=17847560125201451&variables={%22fetch_media_count%22:<num_of_posts_per_suggestion>,%22fetch_suggested_count%22:<num_of_suggestions>,%22filter_followed_friends%22:true, "has_stories":false}

# Post suggestions for user
https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_id=17863787143139595&variables={%22first%22:<num_of_posts>}

Note: This uses URLEncoded for the variables

Sybmol	URLEncoded
,	%2C
}	%7D
{	%7B
:	%3A
"	%22

Full "pipeline" to get a JSON that contains all the information of a profile

This will help to create metrics and graphs in the long run

TODO

• Get the bio, followers, followings and other profile information
• Get all the posts
• For each post, get the description, likes, comments and all the already given post details

#Work in progress