How can I Scrape Business Email Contact with python?

Question

this morning I wanted to create a little Software/Script in Python, it was 6am when I started and now I'm about to become crazy because it's 22pm and I have nothing that works.

So basically, I want to do this: Given an Instagram Username, scrape the Name, Number of followers and the business contact email.

I found out that going to the page source will give me this info (let's consider only the email for now): https://imgur.com/a/jYQ2FtR

Any idea about how I can do that? I try many different things and nothing is working. I don't know what to do. I tried downloading the page and parsing the text looking for "business_email" but I have no idea about how to implement it and extracting the data I'm looking for, I know it's a simple task, but I'm a total noob and I haven't been coding for years.

Can someone tell me how to do it? Or at least point me in the right direction.

Answer 1

There are different ways to approach this problem. If the data you want is visible on the page, then you could scrap that info using Beatiful Soup. If not, then it's a little more trickier but you could extract the info for the page source using regular expressions with the re module.