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Scrape and download Instagram posts, profiles, places, hashtags, photos, and comments. Get data from Instagram using one or more Instagram URLs or search queries. Export scraped data, run the scraper via API, schedule and monitor runs or integrate with other tools.

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Scraper Fetches Pinned Posts Instead of Recent Posts in Chronological Order

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serviceave69 opened this issue
19 hours ago

The scraper is not fetching posts in chronological order but rather in the order they are displayed on the feed. This causes an issue when I set the scraper to retrieve only posts shared in the last two months. Instead of fetching recent posts, the scraper prioritizes pinned posts, which always appear at the top of the feed.

This becomes problematic when I limit the scraper to retrieve only three posts per profile, as a profile can have up to three pinned posts. As a result, the scraper often fetches only pinned posts, ignoring recent content that falls within the specified timeframe. Is there a way to directly ignore pinned posts?

alexey avatar

Hi!

Please use JSON input option skipPinnedPosts: true By default, pinned posts are scraped regardless of date to keep output the same as seen on Instagram

I will close the issue now, but if there is anything else we could help with, please let us know.

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  • 749 stars

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  • 2.5 days response time

  • Created in Apr 2019

  • Modified a day ago