Russian government and politics instagram data and code after march 2022 archival campaign.
Please install Python "typer' lib "pip install typer".
Please install "instaloader" - https://instaloader.github.io
Please install 7zip to archive data as packages - https://7-zip.org or rewrite this code to another archiver
Run "python collect.py collect" to collect data from list of Instagram accounts in 'instagram.csv' file. Data saved to "data" dir with directory for each account.
Run "python collect.py collectshort" to collect data from list of instagram accounts in "shortlist.txt" with list of only accounts
Run "python collect.py package" to create archive of each account in "export" directory. One zip file per account
All collected data available at https://cdn1.ruarxive.org/public/webcollect2022/govinst2022/_govinstagrams_20220325.zip
Ivan Begtin (ivan@begtin.tech)
Russian national digital archive - http://ruarxive.org