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Automating Data Collection (Instagram Follower count)
Hi everyone, I am interning at a company and I am trying to design a dashboard to have an overview on social media performance. One of the graphs is trying to show instagram follower growth over ...
I think this can be easily done via the utilization of unofficial Instagram API. I would suggest checking repos on GitHub for this.
There are tons of sites that are able to not only pull basic data (follower count, profile image) but also are able to download posts, videos, stories, and more. So, there is definitely a simple solution to this. If you see Famium tools, they have tons of free services to download/view Instagram content. I am highly certain they're also utilizing Instagram API from GitHub.