Instagram user feed PHP

Warning 2023-12-31 - Version 7.0.0 will drop support for PHP < 8.2

Warning 2022-11-09 - Instagram changed his DOM AGAIN... Please update to this version 6.16.4

Warning 2022-06-01 - Instagram changed his DOM content and profile data loading. Please update to this version 6.15.0

Information

Easily fetch any Instagram feed and more without OAuth for PHP.

If you like or use this package, please share your love by starring this repository, follow @pgrimaud or become a sponsor. 🙏💓

Features

• Fetch profile data of user
• Fetch medias of user
• Fetch stories of user
• Fetch highlights stories of user
• Fetch detailed post of user
• Fetch feed of followers
• Fetch feed of followings
• Follow or unfollow users
• Like or unlike posts
• Fetch posts of hashtag
• Fetch comments of a post
• Fetch live-streaming info
• Fetch Reels
• Fetch IGTV
• Fetch medias where a user has been tagged on
• Fetch HD profile picture
• Post a message to a media
• NEW: Login with cookies 🎉
• NEW: Fetch connected user timeline 🎉

This version can retrieve ANY Instagram feed using web scraping.

• Installation
• Usage
• Medias paginate
• Stories
• Examples

⚠️ Version ^5.0 is no more maintained. ⚠️

Installation

composer require pgrimaud/instagram-user-feed

Changelog

v7.0.0 - 2023-12-31:

• Drop support for PHP < 8.2

v6.16.6 - 2023-12-31:

• Add support for Symfony 7
• Fix login error "Unable to extract JSON data" (n1crask)

v6.16.5 - 2023-12-24:

• Medias are no longer returned after fetching a profile. $profile->getMedias() will always return an empty array after calling $api->getProfile(). It is necessary to call $api->getMoreMedias($profile) to return the first 12 media (cookieguru)
• Same for IGTV (cookieguru)
• Fix imap_delete second parameter (deepvision7)

v6.16 - 2022-08-02:

• Login with cookies. Thanks to nsmle (example here) 🎉.
• Fetch connected user timeline. Thanks to nsmle (example here) 🎉.
• Add full support for Symfony 6
• Add checks on missing properties to avoid errors

v6.15 - 2022-06-02:

• ⚠️ ⚠️ Fix profile endpoint. Please update to this last version!

v6.12 - 2021-09-20:

• Add method to post message on a media (example here) 🎉.
• Add method to get HD profile picture (example here) 🎉.

v6.11 - 2021-09-13:

• Add method to fetch medias where a user has been tagged on (example here) 🎉.

v6.10 - 2021-09-03:

• Add method to fetch IGTV (example here) 🎉.
• Add method to fetch Reels (example here) 🎉.
• Split dirty tests in multiple files.

v6.9 - 2021-09-02:

• Add method to fetch Instagram live-streaming info. Thanks to David-Kurniawan
• Minor fixes.

v6.8 - 2021-07-08:

• Add video url in media feed. Thanks to @Nispeon
• Add helper to download media (ref to #205 : strict-origin-when-cross-origin). Thanks to @Nispeon
• Minor changes and improvements.

v6.7 - 2021-01-31:

• New feature: get post of hashtag.
• New feature: get comments of post.
• Add support for PHP 8.
• Minor changes and improvements.

v6.6 - 2020-10-06:

• New feature: like and unlike posts.
• Retrieval #hashtags and @mentions from stories.
• Minor changes and improvements.

v6.5 - 2020-09-14:

• New feature: follow and unfollow users. Thanks to @David-Kurniawan)
• Minor fixes.

v6.4 - 2020-08-30:

• New feature: fetch followers and followings feeds. Thanks to @David-Kurniawan)
• Minor improvements.

v6.3 -2020-07-03:

• Add checkpoint challenge bypass using IMAP configuration.

v6.2 - 2020-06-01:

• Improve medias crawling && cache constraints.

v6.1 - 2020-05-21:

• New feature: Fetch stories and highlights stories.

v6.0 - 2020-05-20

• Please upgrade from ^5.0 for cookies session stability.

Version ^6.8: strict-origin-when-cross-origin

Facebook added a new CORS policy, and you can't display the data directly.

You can now download media on your storage or server to serve it directly on your website. You can find an example here.

Example:

<?php

// include vendor & classes

// random picture from instagram
$url = 'https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/s150x150/156309873_1632221153646196_1273891214497323498_n.jpg?tp=1&_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_ohc=vbxGNZrjPmUAX8CIDdC&edm=ABfd0MgBAAAA&ccb=7-4&oh=ae5811c07f0e73b945eb203cd58c2101&oe=60EDD1EE&_nc_sid=7bff83'

// define directory
$downloadDir = __DIR__ . '/../assets'; // change it

$fileName = MediaDownloadHelper::downloadMedia($url, $downloadDir);
// file was downloaded here : __DIR__ . '/../assets/v-t51.2885-19-s150x150-156309873_1632221153646196_1273891214497323498_n.jpg

Version ^6.3: Checkpoint challenge bypass

Some people may have trouble to login with this library. It happens for "old" Instagram accounts or if you're using it on some shared hosting (not all, I don't know why...).

You can now automatically bypass the checkpoint challenge. (email verification with code). You can find an example here.

Tips: you should create a dummy instagram account using a dummy e-mailbox to use this feature.

How it works?

1. The lib will try to login
2. Got 400 error "checkpoint_required"
3. Trigger email verification
4. Connect to your email inbox using IMAP credentials
5. Wait for Instagram verification email
6. Parse verification code from email
7. Make a request to instagram with this code to complete verification
8. Verification is done, then save session automatically*

*Saving session with cache driver is very important here. The Instagram session is valid for... 1 YEAR. So in theory, using a cache driver and one account will trigger only one real login to Instagram then reusing session for a long time.

Thanks to @ibnux and @eldark for help 🎉

Version ^6.0: Login

In version ^6.0, login is now mandatory, it will save cookies (session) to simulate "real" requests to Instagram.

They improve their bot detection and without real session data in the headers requests, your IP could be easily soft-ban by Instagram.

Then, you can't fetch a lot of data without login.

Tips: you just have to create or use a dummy account to use easily this package.

Usage

New in 6.0 Cache : This library implements PSR-6 for greatest interoperability.

<?php

use Instagram\Api;
use Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\FilesystemAdapter;

$cachePool = new FilesystemAdapter('Instagram', 0, __DIR__ . '/../cache');

$api = new Api($cachePool);
$api->login('username', 'password'); // mandatory
$profile = $api->getProfile('robertdowneyjr');

echo $profile->getUserName(); // robertdowneyjr

echo $profile->getFullName(); // Robert Downey Jr. Official

Basic usage :

<?php

$api = new Api($cachePool);
$api->login('username', 'password');

$profile = $api->getProfile('robertdowneyjr');

print_r($profile);

Instagram\Hydrator\Component\Feed Object
(
    [id] => 1518284433
    [userName] => robertdowneyjr
    [fullName] => Robert Downey Jr. Official
    [biography] => @officialfootprintcoalition @coreresponse
    [followers] => 46382057
    [following] => 50
    [profilePicture] => https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-19/s320x320/72702032_542075739927421_3928117925747097600_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_ohc=h2zGWoshNjUAX9ze3jb&oh=cf6441cfc3f258da3bf4cfef29686c7d&oe=5EEEC338
    [externalUrl] => http://coreresponse.org/covid19
    [private] => 
    [verified] => 1
    [mediaCount] => 453
        (
            [0] => Instagram\Model\InstagramMedia Object
                (
                    [id] => 2307655221969878423
                    [typeName] => GraphImage
                    [height] => 1350
                    [width] => 1080
                    [thumbnailSrc] => https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/c0.180.1440.1440a/s640x640/96225997_178111910111734_5886065436455432375_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=GqcYpSEbz8gAX_GF1Ep&oh=1b293215142d407faca46a2fd28eab71&oe=5EF0EBDF
                    [link] => https://www.instagram.com/p/CAGcDKplv2X/
                    [date] => DateTime Object
                        (
                            [date] => 2020-05-12 22:06:01.000000
                            [timezone_type] => 3
                            [timezone] => Europe/Paris
                        )

                    [displaySrc] => https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/p1080x1080/96225997_178111910111734_5886065436455432375_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=GqcYpSEbz8gAX_GF1Ep&oh=6c19ddef96fdc07d7926b05e36cb2bed&oe=5EEED2CE
                    [caption] => The sweetest things are worth waiting for…Susan and I are producing a @Netflix original series, Sweet Tooth, based on the comic by @Jefflemire. Can’t wait to share it with you all. 🦌 👦 @NXonNetflix @warnerbrostv #SweetTooth
                    [comments] => 3308
                    [likes] => 687988
                    [thumbnails] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => stdClass Object
                                (
                                    [src] => https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/c0.180.1440.1440a/s150x150/96225997_178111910111734_5886065436455432375_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=GqcYpSEbz8gAX_GF1Ep&oh=24b300201afc0e0c82166c6288e0ed5b&oe=5EF00196
                                    [config_width] => 150
                                    [config_height] => 150
                                )

                            [1] => stdClass Object
                                (
                                    [src] => https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/c0.180.1440.1440a/s240x240/96225997_178111910111734_5886065436455432375_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=GqcYpSEbz8gAX_GF1Ep&oh=203d0a3d01d77a2978739c96eb67e607&oe=5EEF6DE0
                                    [config_width] => 240
                                    [config_height] => 240
                                )

                            [2] => stdClass Object
                                (
                                    [src] => https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/c0.180.1440.1440a/s320x320/96225997_178111910111734_5886065436455432375_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=GqcYpSEbz8gAX_GF1Ep&oh=7b9cee64460e1c9c501e59621e6ccfb2&oe=5EF18BE6
                                    [config_width] => 320
                                    [config_height] => 320
                                )

                            [3] => stdClass Object
                                (
                                    [src] => https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/c0.180.1440.1440a/s480x480/96225997_178111910111734_5886065436455432375_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=GqcYpSEbz8gAX_GF1Ep&oh=f3d8c31eca2d3c3ab6653b3ed3ebe4f4&oe=5EEFEAC0
                                    [config_width] => 480
                                    [config_height] => 480
                                )

                            [4] => stdClass Object
                                (
                                    [src] => https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/c0.180.1440.1440a/s640x640/96225997_178111910111734_5886065436455432375_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=GqcYpSEbz8gAX_GF1Ep&oh=1b293215142d407faca46a2fd28eab71&oe=5EF0EBDF
                                    [config_width] => 640
                                    [config_height] => 640
                                )

                        )

                    [location] => 
                    [video] => 
                    [videoViewCount] => 0
                )
        ...
        
    [endCursor:Instagram\Model\InstagramProfile:private] => QVFEblBGclVyOEtCMmRLZkVxUUdVbmhsYXNMZmMmplNWtZRkJnRnZOSUdMM1BDRmt3ZA==
)

Paginate

If you want to use paginate on medias, just call getMoreMedias method.

<?php

$api = new Api($cachePool);
$api->login($credentials->getLogin(), $credentials->getPassword());

$profile = $api->getProfile('twhiddleston');

print_r($profile->getMedias()); // 12 first medias

do {
    $profile = $api->getMoreMedias($profile);
    print_r($profile->getMedias()); // 12 more medias

    // avoid 429 Rate limit from Instagram
    sleep(1);
} while ($profile->hasMoreMedias());

Stories

<?php

use Instagram\Api;
use Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\FilesystemAdapter;

$cachePool = new FilesystemAdapter('Instagram', 0, __DIR__ . '/../cache');

$api = new Api($cachePool);
$api->login('username', 'password'); // mandatory

$profile = $api->getProfile('starwars'); // we need instagram username
sleep(1);
$feedStories = $api->getStories($profile->getId());

$stories = $feedStories->getStories();

print_r($stories);

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Pierre Grimaud 💻	Jan Östlund 💻	Tim Bond 💻	Dlinny 🐛	René 🐛	ikiselev1989 🐛	Pezhvak 💻
David Greminger 💻	Nana YAMANE 💻	David Kurniawan 💻	gtapps 💻	Chun-Sheng, Li ⚠️	schelmo 💻	Mojtaba 💻
Georgy Gusev 💻	Jibran Ijaz 💻	Julien Cousin-Alliot 💻	n-richaud 🐛	Dmitry Afonin 💻	Andrei Firoiu 🐛	Fiki Pratama 💻
Carl 🐛	Peter Kampjes 💻	Bob Brown 📖	nagajoomlapro 💻	cleveng 💻	BMRG14 💻	Sinan Portakal 💻
deepvision7 💻	Yusuf Özdemir 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

Feedback

You found a bug? You need a new feature? You can create an issue if needed or contact me on Twitter.

License

Licensed under the terms of the MIT License.