Features

• Get 20 most-liked posts for a location on Instagram
• Store fetched data in a json file
• Data stored includes the following: media code, date, comments count, likes count
• No access token needed (Uses instagram public api, not the official one)

Usage

1. npm install
2. Setup (view below)
3. node crawler.js // start crawling
4. node top20.js // list out top 20 most-liked posts
5. To view the post, open the url 'https://www.instagram.com/p/MEDIA_CODE' (replace MEDIA_CODE with the media code for e.g. BdyyDF2lYdx)

Setup

Edit crawler.js

1. Set the value of the variable 'location_id' to the Location ID
2. Set the value of the variable 'max_id' to the maximum id (the highest id to start fetching posts from, data with a high id will be fetched first)

Dependencies

• node-json-db: ^0.7.3
• request: ^2.83.0