A naive script to check if a username is available in Instagram

instachecker.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

import requests

def check_user(username):
    url = "https://www.instagram.com/{}".format(username)
    response = requests.get(url)
    status_code = response.status_code
    return True if status_code == 200 else False


def main():
    print(check_user('nishparadox'))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()