Get instagram followers

Question

I want to parse a website\'s followers count with BeautifulSoup. This is what I have so far:

username_extract = \'lazada_my\'

url = \'https://www.instagram.         


        

Answer 1

Thank you all, I ended up using William's solution. In case anybody will have future projects, here is my complete code for scraping a bunch of URL's for their follower count:

import requests
import csv 
import pandas as pd
import re

insta = pd.read_csv('Instagram.csv')

username = []

bad_urls = [] 

for lines in insta['Instagram'][0:250]:
    lines = lines.split("/")
    username.append(lines[3])

with open('insta_output.csv', 'w') as csvfile:
t = csv.writer(csvfile, delimiter=',')     #   ----> COMMA Seperated
for user in username:
   try:
       url = 'https://www.instagram.com/'+ user
       r = requests.get(url)
       m = re.search(r'"followed_by":\{"count":([0-9]+)\}', str(r.content))
       num_followers = m.group(1)
       t.writerow([user,num_followers])    #  ----> Adding Rows
   except:
       bad_urls.append(url)