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A python script for downloading all of the instagram photos of a certain hashtag I wrote for a friend in 20 minutes (forgive sloppiness). Warning: you're only allowed 30 API requests an hour. Requires your own access token set as environment variable "access_token".
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from datetime import datetime | |
import urllib2 | |
import urllib | |
import json | |
import os | |
def ajaxRequest(url=None): | |
""" | |
Makes an ajax get request. | |
url - endpoint(string) | |
""" | |
req = urllib2.Request(url) | |
f = urllib2.urlopen(req) | |
response = f.read() | |
f.close() | |
return response | |
access_token = os.getenv("access_token") | |
# ask for hashtag name | |
hashtag = raw_input("What hashtag would you like to download photos of? ") | |
# url to query for pictures | |
nextUrl = "https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/"+hashtag+"/media/recent?access_token="+access_token | |
print nextUrl | |
# while there is a next url to go to | |
while nextUrl: | |
# request the data at that endpoint | |
instagramJSON = ajaxRequest(nextUrl) | |
instagramDict = json.loads(instagramJSON) | |
# get new nextUrl | |
nextUrl = instagramDict["pagination"]["next_url"] | |
instagramData = instagramDict["data"] | |
# for every picture | |
for picDict in instagramData: | |
# get the image url and current time | |
print picDict | |
image = picDict["images"]["standard_resolution"] | |
imageUrl = image["url"] | |
print image | |
time = str(datetime.now()) | |
# download the photo and save it | |
urllib.urlretrieve(imageUrl, time+".jpg") |
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