Instapy: How can I load grab_followers?

[aleeepp]

Hello, I want to use session.grab_followers once a week, and in the other days load the .json in a session.follow_by_list in partition (the Json has 100k), my question is what can i do for load the last json for the session.grab_followers.

Thks!!!!

[uluQulu]

@aleeepp
grab_followers feature is grabbing a live data from the servers.

But if you want to load an existing old copy of some relationship data in its local folder into a variable, you have to do sth else.

To get the last file from there, you can write a few lines of date matching cos the data files are keeping the record time in them.

But out of the box, exactly for loading followers data files, you can use an _existing_ function- load_followers_data.

Do this to get it work:

#inside your quickstart script
## near imports
from instapy.relationship_tools import load_followers_data

##ready to go state
followers_data, selected_filename = load_followers_data(username="dominic", compare_by="latest", compare_track=None, logger=session.logger, logfolder=session.logfolder)

Now follower_data variable holds the data stored in the selected_filename JSON.
Plain and simple 😁
You can also use the value- "earliest" in compare_by parameter to make it load the very earliest data file in there OR all the available values compare_by (_and compare_track_) can get (_see README for more_).

Good thing is that function is super useful but cos of it was intended for internal usage I did not make it more accessible.

BTW I have not tested it, please, let me know if something does not work as intended. 🙌

Cheers 😁

[bianpratama]

@aleeepp,

You can try to use my little modification of load_followers_data in #2515 to make the command more versatile. So that it can be used to load any type of relationship data, instead of just followers.

And again, thanks to @uluQulu for the helpful assistance! 🤝

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