How to Extract Instagram's Most Popular Posts with Airtop Studio

Manual Instagram trend monitoring is slow and unreliable. Instagram's complex interface and authentication requirements make data extraction challenging for marketing teams needing timely insights.

Airtop Studio automates Instagram Explore scraping with secure authentication (OAuth, 2FA, Captcha) and real browser sessions. This delivers structured JSON data including post content, captions, hashtags, mentions, and engagement metrics.

Key Benefits:

• Authentic scraping through real browser interactions

• Secure authenticated access with no coding required

• Structured JSON output for easy analysis

• Bypasses scraping limitations through genuine user behavior

Ideal for:

• Social media managers optimizing content strategy

• Marketing analysts researching engagement trends

• Competitive intelligence teams benchmarking competitors

• Content strategists identifying viral content

Common Uses:

• Track trending hashtags for campaign planning

• Extract popular content topics and engagement data

• Analyze competitor mentions and strategies

• Identify influencers and brand advocates

• Generate viral content reports for team insights

Getting Started with the Extract Instagram Most Popular Posts Info Automation

Quickly begin scraping Instagram's popular trending posts using Airtop Studio and authenticated secure profiles.

How the Extract Instagram Most Popular Posts Info Automation Works

Once activated, Airtop Studio initiates a secure, real-browser instance logged into your authenticated Instagram profile. Airtop securely navigates and parses Instagram's Explore page, extracting key data points such as post type, descriptive captions, trending hashtags, tagged mentions, and unique shortcodes. The automation compiles these insights into a structured JSON output ready for immediate use in data analytics platforms, reporting tools, or social media dashboards.

What You’ll Need

• A free Airtop account

• A free Airtop Profile authenticated to Instagram (create one here)

Setting Up the Automation

1. Click on "Try Automation".

2. Under Advanced Settings, enter your Airtop Profile name authenticated to Instagram.

3. Click on "Start Session".

4. Click "Run".

5. Optional: Retrieve Python or TypeScript code by clicking "Get Code", or integrate into Make or n8n by copying and pasting provided prompts and JSON schema.

Customize the Automation

Tailor this automation to fit your specific Instagram analytics needs with Airtop Studio:

• Select specific hashtags or mentions to focus extraction on pinpoint topics or campaigns.

• Set extraction limits or intervals to ensure you are collecting data at optimal timestamps.

• Adapt JSON data schemas to prioritize unique metrics relevant to your research goals—such as post engagement or influencer mentions.

Automation Best Practices

• Schedule regular automated sessions to remain consistently updated with Instagram trends.

• Regularly update your Airtop Profile authentication to maintain seamless sessions.

• Review extracted JSON outputs to ensure data accuracy and quality over the lifetime of projects.

Try this Automation

Automating Instagram Explore page extraction with Airtop Studio provides precise insights into trending content, streamlining research and decision-making processes effortlessly.

Extract Instagram Most Popular Posts Info Automation – Airtop Studio

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