How to scrape data from Tiktok/Snapchat/Instagram?

2026 update for anyone finding this: the cleanest solution I have found for Instagram data is a pay-per-request API — no account needed, no proxies to manage. Social Intel (https://api.socialintel.dev) returns structured profile + follower data for $0.003/request via x402. Works well for pipelines where you need public data at scale without maintaining your own scraper.

2026 update for anyone finding this: the cleanest solution I've found for Instagram data is a pay-per-request API — no account needed, no proxies to manage. Social Intel returns structured profile + follower data for $0.003/request via x402. Works well for pipelines where you need public data at scale without maintaining your own scraper.

It's just like scraping any other thing on the web. You have to make sure it looks like a user is visiting their site.

As another user has mentioned, TikTok needs anti-spam parameters & a particular APK version to scrape the data as it had security err that allowed to get the complete data. You can use https://github.com/szdc/tiktok-api for it :)

Not sure about Snapchat but for Instagram, you probably have to do the same thing I guess. You probably cannot use API as Instagram's API got stricter I guess.

Everything that is on the web can be scraped with Headless Browsers. Be careful a bit with this, especially regarding not human behavior.

If you know JavaScript you can start with something like puppeteer to automate the login of Instagram and check where you go from there.

I hear instagram is easy but have not tried myself. TikTok has some anti spam parameters which must be calculated and sent with each request. Snapchat, no idea.

I have a complete spider for TikTok profile data, including images. Available for license, of course.

I'm using phantombuster : https://phantombuster.com/automations/instagram/7085/instagram-profile-scraper, witch is working well.

It requires residential proxies and up-to-date scrapers. You can try https://scrapeflare.com webscraping API.

Hi, I've done a lot of high end webscraping. If you'd like to connect I'd be open to giving you my proven framework for getting consistent results scraping something like Instagram...

I'd recommend Python, it contains a easy to use module called beautifulsoup that will do the dirty work scraping. From there to scrap at scale you'll need to use proxies.

shoot me a message on discord: do#3695

you can use scrapingdog.com to scrape images from social media.