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Scrape Instagram posts. Just add one or more Instagram usernames and get your data in seconds including text, hashtags, mentions, comments, images, URLs, likes, locations, and metadata. Export scraped data, run the scraper via API, schedule and monitor runs or integrate with other tools.

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errorDescription Restricted profile not_found Post does not exist

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infl_mangem opened this issue
a month ago

error errorDescription Restricted profile not_found Post does not exist

alexey avatar

Hi!

Many profiles in your run either not available without Instagram login or not exists, so actor saving dataset item with the error: https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/i9eI3IKRu7QWQ4aYg/items?clean=true&fields=errorDescription,url&format=json

And private profiles like https://www.instagram.com/douglasgoderik/ saved with the different error

1{
2  "errorDescription": "Empty or private data for provided input",
3  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/douglasgoderik"
4}

because no posts can be scraped from such profiles, however profile itself exists at Instagram

I´m going to close the issue now, but if there would be anything else we could help with, please let us know.

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infl_mangem

a month ago

So from 10,000 profiles it managed to scrape 0 posts?

alexey avatar

Hi!

1.166 private or not exists in referenced run: https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/i9eI3IKRu7QWQ4aYg/items?clean=true&fields=errorDescription,url&format=json

From random manual testing I was unable to find any exceptions. Try to scrape profile details first, check if profile is publicly available and posted something, for such profiles continue with posts scraping.

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  • Created in Nov 2021
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