IGCommentPicker

Get all the comments from an Instagram post and place them into a CSV file. Helpful for influencers running a social media contest and need an automated way to copy all the comments.

Why?

Instagram's API restricts it's use to only registered and verified applications and is difficult to get public data. By making HTTP requests to their GraphQL endpoint, data can be easily pulled and transformed to be made useful.

Setup

To run locally, clone the project:

git clone https://github.com/kelvilee/IGCommentPicker.git
cd IGCommentPicker

Instagram requires a query_hash query parameter in order to make GraphQL requests.

Get query_hash

1. Go to https://www.instagram.com/github/ and open the inspector F12

2. Open the Network tab, refresh the page, and filter by XHR.

3. You should see a ?query_hash=... request being sent. Click on it and select the Headers tab. Scroll down to the bottom and under Query String Parameters is your query_hash

Setting .env.local

Create a .env.local file in the root directory of the project and add the QUERY_HASH variable to the file using your query_hash

Example:

QUERY_HASH=15bf78a4ad24e33cbd838fdb41353ac1

Run local development server

Install dependencies with yarn and run the local development server

yarn
yarn dev

Enjoy!