Scraping Instagram through APIfy - how to add URL?

[tomaszpasko]

Good morning!

I want to use Apify to scrape Instagram profile, get URLs of posts, and scrape posts from these comments.

And I am stuck in the step 1 (lol).

My logic here is > Input node with Instagram handle > Apify task to scrape Instagram > get URLs > sort them in the table > pass to another Apify node in a Loop mode so it will go through all links > get comments in the docs.

But, for now, I don’t know how to add Instagram handle to Apify first step, and I can’t execute further steps.

Does anyone know how to do it?

CC @Wasay-Gumloop

[Gumloop_Bot]

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[Wasay-Gumloop]

Hey @tomaszpasko - The Apify Task Runner node currently does not have an input field for the task. The solution here would be to use a custom node.

More info here: Connecting 2 Apify Nodes? - #4 by Wasay-Gumloop

Let me know if that works for you.

[Shrikar]

You will first need to go to apify and save the task and do a run first before fetching them in Gumloop to identify the columns. This might help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Q7QWjfb6c