Dirty lil instagram image scraper - downloads images by tag name. Aw yis.

dirty-igdl.py

import re
import requests

tag = 'mpower'
r = requests.get('http://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/' + tag + '/')
html = r.text
# print(html)


img = re.compile('(?:\"display_url\":\")([^\"]+)\"')
images = img.findall(html)

count = 0
for line in images:
    Picture_request = requests.get(line)
    if Picture_request.status_code == 200:
        filename = tag + str(count)
        print('rippin ' + line)
        with open('c:\\image_test\\' + tag + '\\' + filename + '.jpg', 'wb') as f:
            f.write(Picture_request.content)
            count = count + 1