What tools or libraries are commonly used for Instagram scraping? #2
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What tools or libraries are commonly used for Instagram scraping?
Answer
Headless browsers: Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium (with stealth plugins).
Parsers: Cheerio (Node), BeautifulSoup (Python).
HTTP: Axios/undici (Node), Requests/HTTPX (Python).
Queues: BullMQ (Node), Celery/RQ (Python).
Storage: SQLite/Postgres for structured data, S3/GCS for blobs.
Ops: Docker/Compose, GitHub Actions for CI, Prometheus + Grafana for metrics.
Networking: Rotating residential or mobile proxies, session persistence, fingerprinting.