Scrape Instagram using the instagram-java-scraper Java library in R.

Based on the project of postaddictme.

To run Java applications you need the Java Runtime Environment.

To execute Java code in R you need to install the package rJava from CRAN:

install.packages("rJava")

1. Configure the settings at the top of the script scraper.R:

## User account to scrape
user_account <- "berlinphil"

## Max number of posts to retrieve
media_count <- as.integer(100)

2. Run the script:

source("scraper.R")

3. Find the output datasets in the ./dataout/ directory.