How much can I use Instagram data on a Crawler?

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I’m just curious, but these days Instagram has generated me certain doubts. I have already made a simple Rawler using Beautifulsoup to extract date and receive daily information from new posts. The question is, can I extract information from my profile? How many times a user x has viewed, how many times a user x has searched my user. I read their entire security term and I know they keep that kind of information, but is it possible for me to have that kind of access or is it something restricted to them? Excuse the question "simple".

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    Using the API from them and with the user’s permission you can probably access all the information that is public: https://www.instagram.com/developer/

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If the information is not public (or you do not have access after logging in), it is not possible to scrap it. Sometimes the information is loaded but not shown; hence, an analysis of the requests that come and go and the hidden elements of the page may reveal something, but I believe there is nothing like this with Instagram.

Outside crawlers, one can take a look at Instagram API as mentioned in @Sorack’s comment, but I haven’t found anything like what you want; it’s probably something they don’t provide.

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