Instagram Scraper API

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.instagram.com/nasa/");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.instagram.com/nasa/");
await page.content(12000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const profile = {
    username: document.querySelector("header h2")?.textContent?.trim(),
    bio: document.querySelector("header section > div > span")?.textContent?.trim(),
    stats: [],
  };
  document.querySelectorAll("header li span span").forEach(el => {
    profile.stats.push(el.textContent?.trim());
  });
  const posts = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("article img[srcset]").forEach(el => {
    const alt = el.getAttribute("alt");
    const src = el.getAttribute("src");
    if (alt) posts.push({ alt: alt.slice(0, 200), src });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ profile, posts: posts.slice(0, 12) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();