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I have python 2.7.12 on Linux. When I run the script, I get a syntax error on Line 75:

File "./instagram_search.py", line 77
class HashTagSearch(metaclass=ABCMeta):
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I'm an utter novice, so I can't troubleshoot it myself. I just wanted to mine Instagram tags. Please help?

Edit: Through hit and trial, I modified the line to "class HashTagSearch(ABCMeta)"

Now I get the error:

File "./instagram_search.py", line 283, in
HashTagSearchExample().extract_recent_tag("christmas")
TypeError: new() takes exactly 4 arguments (1 given)

Please help.

Sorry, wrong page

Kudos for great scrapper. However, I stumbled upon an issue - on lines 123/124 when trying to extract query id from potential query ids - the post return HTTP-403 error. maybe insta-API changed ?

url = "https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_hash=%s&variables=%s" % (
potential_id, json.dumps(variables))

Also, do you think it is possible to alter it a little in order to scrap profile pages as well ?

I'm getting a 404 when calling requests.post("https://www.instagram.com/query/", data=post_data, headers=headers).text inside the get_next_results method. I can't figure out why.

post.user gives a pointer of InstagramUser object. However, post.user.username gives None. What's happening?

Is there a way to web scrape instagram posts with all the available details using geo location ?

Hello,

I was having trouble with getting the correct (or in some case any) query_ids from:
def get_query_id(self, doc)

The query id was no longer to be found in c="", it can now be found in queryId:""
so just need to change line 177
for query_id in re.findall("(?<=c=\")[0-9]{1,}", text)
to
for query_id in re.findall("(?<queryId:\")[0-9]{1,}", text)

Once I change this everything worked again and I haven't had a:
ERROR:root:Could not extract Query Id, exiting

Soph