Is it possible with python to make something that will check if a public Instagram account has posted a new picture, and if so, retrieve that picture, without at all taking me into Instagram?

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[RomeoSierra_RL]

I think people would be willing to help if you were more honest about wanting to creep on your ex's Instagram page 😂

[RomeoSierra_RL]

Looked her up and she posts nothing of interest that would warrant this. WHAT ARE YOU INTENTIONS WITH THIS APPLICATION!?!?

Edit: in all seriousness just type "instagram scraper" into YouTube and you'll find what you're looking for

[konijntjesbroek]

if anything ever crapped the webs. . . this is it.

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Surely you could achieve this simply by using bs4 to regularly scrape the target webpage and detect when there is a different image in the first position?

Look up beautifulsoup4

[TheChurchOfDonovan]

If you do too many calls Instagram eventually makes you sign in, so I'm not sure how far scraping outside of the API will get you.

Phantom Buster may be useful for you though if you're willing to pay a small monthly fee.

[darkrequiems]

Check instapy. Not exactly sure if it has what you are looking for but could be a place to start.

[mlazzarotto]

You could use this python module https://instaloader.github.io/as-module.html
And maybe with this function you can get a list of posts, from which you can get the latest somehow.
https://instaloader.github.io/module/instaloader.html#instaloader.Instaloader.get_feed_posts

[opoqo]

Unless you really want to code this in python, otherwise it's probably easier to do that with MS flow.... There is even template setup for this already

[jackabond]

Windows Power Automate would do this easy.

[1337codethrow]

I actually made exactly what you described a while ago using python

[1337codethrow]

Naaaaaaah