Extracting Instagram Text

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#1

Hi all,

I'm having difficulties extracting the text of Instagram posts if they are longer than a certain amount of characters. In most cases, I just use =HtmlMetaDescription(URL) which works fine, except with the aforementioned cases.

For example, using HtmlMetaDescription on the following post:
/https://www.instagram.com/p/_e8RjwPLAW/

I get the following text that is cut off:
“Alltså vilka kämpar som släntrar in nu! Julius och Björn har promenerat, åkt konståkning, åkt spark... Ja de har minst sagt vart aktiva! Över 200 000…”

I would like to use Xpath on the tag, because the post, in its entirety, is found here:
/html/head/title when I chose Copy Xpath.

However, I get "Instagram" as a result, because at the top of html page, is:

Instagram

Is it any way to force Xpath to extract the text from the /html/head/title path?

Thanks a lot!
/Victor

#2

That page is built using javascript. Look at view source:

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Try to run the query using the new PhantomJs-Cloud connector:

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PhantomJs is a headless browser as a service that executes javascript.

http://seotoolsforexcel.com/phantomjs-cloud/

#3

Thank you very much! I solved it with the Oembed API combined with JsonPathonURL :slight_smile: