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I am developing a very simple tool to simply collect the number of followers of Instagram accounts. I am doing by Google Collab since the company I work imposes several security restrictions when it comes to the use of some Pyhton terminal on the laptop (you will understand...)
Basically, I’m using this code:
import requests
user = "taylorswift"
#a escolha da conta a ser analisada é totalmente aleatória
url = 'https://www.instagram.com/' + user
r = requests.get(url).text
start = '"edge_followed_by":{"count":'
end = '},"followed_by_viewer"'
print(r[r.find(start)+len(start):r.rfind(end)])
is a very simple code to only parse the html code and return the value between the strings mentioned above.
The following message is being returned:
What strikes me the most is the answer "Page not Found"... I don’t know if I’m wrong or if the google collab platform doesn’t allow me to perform this kind of function.
If you have any insight I’d appreciate it...