Social network API integrated with python

[thibasBigT]

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I'm a technical student and I need help with programming in Python. My professor gave me a project in which I must use an API from some social network and integrated with Python. My group's idea is to capture data such as the number of shares, likes, reposts and perhaps some other information. I thought about Instagram and went after it to see if I could find a solution. However, I didn't find any videos on the internet and the official API guide on the Meta Developer website is very confusing for me. Can anyone tell me if this project is viable and if it can go ahead?

Note: I have 3 weeks difference from today.

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[davevad93]

Hi @thibasBigT ,

I've never personally used Instagram API but I think 3 weeks are enough if your assignment consists in scraping data from a social media with Python, here below I'm gonna show a few links that you might find useful for your task:

• A Beginner’s Guide to Interacting with Instagram Using Python and the Graph API
• Using Python to scrape data from Instagram
• How to Fetch Data From Instagram Using Python

[thibasBigT]

Thank you very much for the tip, I was really looking for an alternative because I'm looking at their terms and it seems that on Instagram you need to already have some well-developed application with a really useful purpose and that will "appropriately use" their data, something that not even close I have XD

[davevad93]

You're welcome and good luck with your task!

[ebndev]

Would Spotify count as a social network platform? I found their APIs easy to use and you can fetch data from user profiles like their top played songs, followed artists, etc.

Here's the documentation.

[judahpaul16]

Check out the Social Blade API. Also, Postman is a good tool to have regardless of what API you're testing. I'm not sure what pricing looks like for Social Blade's API or if there's a free tier but there's also good old fashion web scraping with beautifulsoup and selenium if all else fails. Here's an example I made a while back.

[ebndev]

That's awesome @judahpaul16! Thank you for sharing those resources and your repo 😄