Phil Clothier MTphilclothier

cosmocatalano / instagram_scrape.php

Last active November 4, 2024 17:16

Quick-and-dirty Instagram web scrape, just in case you don't think you should have to make your users log in to deliver them public photos.

	<?php

	//returns a big old hunk of JSON from a non-private IG account page.
	function scrape_insta($username) {
	$insta_source = file_get_contents('http://instagram.com/'.$username);
	$shards = explode('window._sharedData = ', $insta_source);
	$insta_json = explode(';</script>', $shards[1]);
	$insta_array = json_decode($insta_json[0], TRUE);
	return $insta_array;
	}