Instagram Hashtag Search Export

Here's a tutorial to help you set up the Instagram Hashtag Search Export Phantom:

This automation will act on your behalf on Instagram. The safest and most efficient way for the Phantom to connect to your account is by using your session cookie, which you can retrieve using PhantomBuster's browser extension. It's a simple 2-click installation:

• Get it for Chrome

• Get it for Firefox

If you're operating from another browser, you can find your cookie manually.

Note:

Every time you log into Instagram, a new cookie is created for that "session," so you must be logged in (and stay logged in) on your browser to provide a working cookie.

You have two options:

1. Process a single hashtag
Type the hashtag into your Phantom's setup, beginning with a #, e.g. #cat.

2. Process multiple hashtags
Create a spreadsheet with Google Sheets. List the hashtags in your spreadsheet - one per row, all in column A.

Make this spreadsheet public so PhantomBuster can access it.

Copy the spreadsheet URL and paste it into your Phantom's setup.

Tell the Phantom how many posts you'd like to extract for each hashtag or location. Instagram allows you to extract a maximum of 5000-9000 posts in one go.

Take note: Because of Instagram's hashtag search algorithm, this Phantom will not be able to pick up from where it left off in the middle of a hashtag search between launches, so you should extract up to 5-9k posts of for one hashtag all in one launch to get as many as possible.

By default, this Phantom will only extract the profile URL of the post owner for first few posts.

If you'd like to extract the profile URL of the poster behind every post you extract, you can check the "Extract the post owner's profile URL and other post data for each post" box in the Phantom's setup. However, to keep your account safe, you should only use this option if extracting a small number of posts.

If extracting hundreds or thousands, you should instead chain the results of this Phantom to the Instagram Post Data Extractor Phantom. This will scrape each of the posts you've extracted for all their available data, including the post owner's profile URL, but will do so at a more moderate pace which will be safer for your account.

Automation always produces better results in the long run. Set the Phantom to launch repeatedly and get results while you're away!

This Phantom runs from the cloud, which means you don't even need to have your browser open or computer on for these launches to happen.

For more automatic launch options, click on the three little dots in the top right and "Show advanced settings."