InstgramProfile.py

import requests
from lxml import html
import re
import sys


def main(username):
    """main function accept instagram username
    return an dictionary object containging profile deatils
    """
    url = "https://www.instagram.com/{}/?hl=en".format(username)
    page = requests.get(url)
    tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
    data = tree.xpath('//meta[starts-with(@name,"description")]/@content')

    if data:
        data = tree.xpath('//meta[starts-with(@name,"description")]/@content')
        data = data[0].split(", ")
        followers = data[0][:-9].strip()
        following = data[1][:-9].strip()
        posts = re.findall(r"\d+[,]*", data[2])[0]
        name = re.findall(r'name":"\w*[\s]+\w*"', page.text)[-1][7:-1]
        aboutinfo = re.findall(r'"description":"([^"]+)"', page.text)[0]
        instagram_profile = {
            "success": True,
            "profile": {
                "name": name,
                "profileurl": url,
                "username": username,
                "followers": followers,
                "following": following,
                "posts": posts,
                "aboutinfo": aboutinfo,
            },
        }
    else:
        instagram_profile = {"success": False, "profile": {}}
    return instagram_profile


#  python InstgramProfile.py username
if __name__ == "__main__":
    """driver code"""

    if len(sys.argv) == 2:
        output = main(sys.argv[-1])
        print(output)
    else:
        print(
            "=========>Invalid paramaters Valid Command is<=========== \
        \npython InstagramProfile.py username"
        )