Instagram DM Scraper

Description

This little script scrapes every private message with any user. You can either just read it in the console or export the chats to a text file to have it saved

Dependency

This fork of the project uses uv as the package manager. You can install uv with:

pip install uv

How to start

• You need to have Python 3.x installed in your system

• Download the source code (Either from releases or master branch)

• Install the requirements via uv, just type in the console uv init then followed by uv sync

• Next, you need the sessionid of the account you're trying to scrape from.

  • You can get the sessionid via your Browser. This demonstration shows how to find it on Firefox: You have to open the developer tools (F12) and then navigate to Storage, there on the left sidebar open the Cookies tab, then open the URL for Instagram and the sessionid will be displayed in to the right.

• Once you have all that, just following the script's steps, which should get you where you want to be.

Features

• See all DMs the user has
• Fetch all messages from any DM chat
• Fetch only messages more recent that specified date (optional)
• Export fetched messages to text file
• Stream the chat live. See the messages coming in in real time

What's the sessionid?

The sessionid is a cookie that the Instagram website stores in your browser when there's an account logged in it. If you need to find out the sessionid take a look at CookiesGrabber