How to Scrape and Extract Instagram Hashtag Popular Posts Info with Airtop Studio

Monitoring Instagram hashtags manually can quickly become overwhelming, particularly for marketing teams and analysts needing timely insights into trending topics and popular posts. Traditional methods involve scrolling through endless feeds, limited access to structured data, unreliable results from basic scraping tools, and significant time wasted in manual data extraction. This makes effective trend tracking and engagement analysis difficult and inefficient for businesses depending on Instagram visibility.

With Airtop's Instagram Hashtag Popular Posts Extraction automation, users can efficiently automate the extraction of data from Instagram's Explore page. This Airtop Studio automation specifically addresses Instagram's unique challenges, enabling robust scraping with authenticated access (handling OAuth, 2FA, and captcha seamlessly). The automation leverages real browser sessions to maintain reliability and accuracy of data scraped, ensuring stable access even amid changes to Instagram’s user experience or scraping detection algorithms.

Structured JSON output simplifies immediate integration with analytical tools, CRMs, and marketing tech stacks. Airtop neatly organizes crucial hashtag information, including captions, content types, hashtags, mentions, and unique shortcodes, delivering actionable insights into trending topics and user interactions directly into your workflow.

Who is this Automation for?

• Social Media Analysts looking to track content trends and engagement metrics

• Digital Marketing Specialists identifying popular themes for campaign ideation

• Influencer Marketing Managers seeking influential accounts and trending hashtags

• Data Engineers automating structured Instagram data collection for analytics

Key Benefits

• Real browser sessions ensuring reliable and undetectable scraping

• Authenticated access (OAuth, 2FA, Captcha) for seamless Instagram scraping

• Structured JSON output for effortless integration from Instagram into your existing analysis tools

• Dramatically reduces manual tracking time, freeing resources for strategic work

Use Cases

• Monitoring campaign-specific hashtag popularity and audience interactions

• Identifying trending hashtags and emerging media types for content planning

• Automating competitive analysis by tracking engagement on industry-specific hashtags

• Capturing popular user-generated content for repurposing in branding campaigns

• Providing timely data for influencer and micro-influencer discovery programs

• Extracting insights about consumer sentiment reflected in hashtagged interactions

Getting Started with the Extract Instagram Hashtag Most Popular Posts Info Automation

Quickly capture actionable insights from Instagram’s most engaging hashtagged posts.

How the Extract Instagram Hashtag Most Popular Posts Info Automation Works

This automation initiates a live browser session via Airtop Studio, authenticates securely to your Instagram account, and navigates directly to the Instagram Explore page for your desired hashtag. It then intelligently identifies the highest-ranked hashtag posts, extracting essential details including content types, captions, hashtags, mentions, and shortcodes, delivering comprehensive structured data in JSON format for convenient integration into your analysis and reporting tools.

What You’ll Need

• A free Airtop account

• A free Airtop Profile authenticated to Instagram (https://portal.airtop.ai/browser-profiles)

Setting Up the Automation

1. Click on Try Automation.

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

3. Click on Start Session.

4. Click Run to execute the automation.

5. Optional: Generate reusable Python or TypeScript code by clicking Get Code, or integrate directly with Make or n8n via provided prompt and JSON schema.

Customize the Automation

Airtop Studio lets you fully tailor your Instagram hashtag automation workflows:

• Specify particular hashtags for highly targeted trend analysis.

• Adjust the frequency and timing of scraping to match your content calendars.

• Add parameters to your JSON output to include additional metadata from hashtagged posts.

• Configure scraping limits such as the number of top posts retrieved for focused, concise analysis.

Automation Best Practices

• Create a dedicated Airtop profile for automation to ensure optimal session stability and reduce risk of logout.

• Periodically rotate your scraping schedule to maintain organic account activity appearance.

• Integrate extracted JSON data directly into your analytics dashboard or marketing tools for time-efficient workflows.

• Regularly verify structured output accuracy and adjust your scraping parameters as trends evolve.

Try this Automation

Effortlessly monitor and analyze trending Instagram hashtag content, capturing valuable insights efficiently with structured JSON data output through Airtop Studio.

Extract Instagram Hashtag Most Popular Posts Info Automation (Airtop Studio)

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