I’m working on an Instagram scraper using a DOM crawler. So far, I’m able to successfully extract basic profile information like:
- Total number of posts
- Number of followers
- Number of accounts followed
However, I’m unable to retrieve the actual post content (images, captions, etc.) from the profile. It seems that Instagram’s frontend structure has changed, or the data is being loaded dynamically in a way that’s not accessible via simple HTML parsing.
Has anyone encountered this issue recently?
Is there a reliable method to extract post data without using the official Instagram Graph API?
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.