[Tutor] Code correction

Rajesh Koot rajeshkoot190 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 2 08:11:00 EDT 2021


below is a code attached to scrape videos from instagram groups we are
following
Can you please tell me which all fields are needed to fill other than
username and password

# scrape_videos.py scrapes all the videos from pages we are following
def scrapeVideos(username = "",
                 password = "",
                 output_folder = "",
                 days = 1):

    print("Starting Scraping")

    L = instaloader.Instaloader()

    # Login or load session for loader
    L.login(username, password)
    profile = instaloader.Profile.from_username(L.context, username)
    following = profile.get_followees()
    print(following)

    for profile in following:
        acc = profile.username
        looter = ProfileLooter(acc, videos_only=True,
template="{id}-{username}-{width}-{height}")
        if not looter.logged_in():
            looter.login(username, password)
        print("Scraping From Account: " + acc)

        today = datetime.date.today()
        timeframe = (today, today -
dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta(days=days))
        numDowloaded = looter.download(output_folder, media_count=30,
timeframe=timeframe)
        print("Downloaded " + str(numDowloaded) + " videos successfully")
        print("")


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