Get instagram followers

Question

I want to parse a website\'s followers count with BeautifulSoup. This is what I have so far:

username_extract = \'lazada_my\'

url = \'https://www.instagram.         


        

Answer 1

You have to look for the scripts, Then look for the 'window._sharedData' exits in it. If exits then perform the regular expression operation.

import re

username_extract = 'lazada_my'
url = 'https://www.instagram.com/'+ username_extract
r = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content,'lxml')
s = re.compile(r'"followed_by":{"count":\d*}')
for i in soup.find_all('script'):
     if 'window._sharedData' in str(i):
         print s.search(str(i.contents)).group()

Result,

"followed_by":{"count":407426}