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Instagram Data Analyzer

A personal project to analyze my Instagram activity from 2016-2022 using Pythonic libraries. Scroll down to view the results.

-- Project Status: [Completed]

Project Objective

The purpose of this project is investigate my Instagram activity - post/reel comments, followers/following history, media likes etc.

-- Explored till now: [Instagram Post Comments]

Project Description

The data used in this project is from my Instagram activity extracted from their website. More details on that below. The questions that I have tried to answer from this project till now are :

1. In which year have I been most active in comments section?
2. In which month have I been most active in comments section?
3. On what date do I usually comment the most?

Installation

  pip install -r requirements.txt

Getting Started

You'll need to download your data to review it.

• Go over to instagram.com on your PC and login to your account.
• Click More in the bottom left, then click Settings.
• Click Privacy and security.
• Scroll down to Data download and click Request download.
• Enter the email address where you'd like to receive a link to your data.
• Click next to HTML or JSON to select the format you'd like to receive your data in, then click Next.
• Enter your Instagram account password and click Request download.
• You'll soon receive an email titled Your Instagram Data with a link to your data. Click Download data and follow the instructions to finish downloading your information.

For more info : Downloading Instagram Data

Instagram Post Comments Structure - Example

{
  "comments_media_comments": [
    {
      "string_map_data": {
        "Comment": {
          "value": "@user This is a comment! The structure looks somewhat like this. \u00f0\u009f\u0098\u0082"
        },
        "Time": {
          "value": "Apr 19, 2017, 3:35 AM"
        }
      }
    },
		
	]
}

Results

License

MIT