Instagram User Tag Scraping 2020

Instagram scraping user tags 2020
Brief demonstration on how to scrape and collect user tags without needing login information.
A lot of data end points such as "viewing followers" is blocked by public users(not logged in).
This is a way to bypass one of these endpoints.

Scrape user tags (same as the url) -> instagram.com/username/tagged

https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_hash=31fe64d9463cbbe58319dced405c6206&variables={"id":"29883180","first":12}

Url Breakdown

#start of url
https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/

#query hash is the "type" such as {user tagged /or/ user followers} just a complicated looking string that tells Instagram to return "tagged posts" for X user
?query_hash=31fe64d9463cbbe58319dced405c6206

#id profile id of target user *this would be a first call before pagination begins, for tagged 12 is max note instagram doesnt always return exactly 12
&variables={"id":"29883180","first":12}

Pagination
Once we load up the initial url we will be presented with json code containing all the images/data
If we want to paginate deeper we need to present the next cursor.
Find "end_cursor" in the json, it should look like a messy string with "==" at the end like so.
QVFEZ2FULUZTdHE5N2ZtWGJXNDVrWkZJZzVKY3VHOUtGT2F2UUZOaGpjeWpsOFc0Y1UzdU9MaEJYUERZRENMc0NKSzZsNnF4dU1WTW9DOHNIb2JGN2F0WA=="

In the &variables={"id":"29883180","first":12} change it to
&variables={"id":"29883180","first":12,"after":END_CURSOR_STRING_HERE}

example
https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_hash=31fe64d9463cbbe58319dced405c6206&variables={"id":"29883180","first":12, "after":"QVFEZ2FULUZTdHE5N2ZtWGJXNDVrWkZJZzVKY3VHOUtGT2F2UUZOaGpjeWpsOFc0Y1UzdU9MaEJYUERZRENMc0NKSzZsNnF4dU1WTW9DOHNIb2JGN2F0WA=="}

hello,
do you know if it's possible to query by username instead of user id?
if not, do you know if it's possible to retrieve a user id by username (maybe in a different endpoint)?

to my knowledge it's not possible, better to just grab the user id using the username.
it's best practice to always save user ids when saying usernames

hello,
do you know if it's possible to query by username instead of user id?
if not, do you know if it's possible to retrieve a user id by username (maybe in a different endpoint)?

you can do it via query:
https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_hash=c9100bf9110dd6361671f113dd02e7d6&variables={"user_id":"{{USER_ID}}","include_chaining":false,"include_reel":true,"include_suggested_users":false,"include_logged_out_extras":false,"include_highlight_reels":false,"include_related_profiles":false}

or use https://rapidapi.com/neotank/api/instagram130 /username-by-id method.