# Scrapfly ranks six open-source Instagram scrapers with notes on auth and ban risk

> Scrapfly published a comparison of six open-source Instagram scrapers for 2026, covering auth models, ban risk, and maintenance status.

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- Beat: Extraction & Parsing · Evidence: Primary source · Type/significance: analysis/2 · First seen: 2026-09-05T15:11:25.356561+00:00 · Updated: 2026-09-05T15:11:25.356561+00:00 · Edition: 2026-09-06
- Framing: model-written (headline, standfirst, why it matters, tags); source facts deterministic

## Briefing
- Scrapfly: Scrapfly published a comparison of six open-source Instagram scrapers for 2026, covering auth models, ban risk, and maintenance status.

## Why it matters
Instagram's aggressive anti-bot measures make scraping notoriously difficult, so a curated, honest comparison of open-source tools is valuable for practitioners evaluating trade-offs between auth complexity, detection risk, and ongoing maintenance. The post signals which tools are still viable and which have fallen behind, helping teams avoid wasted effort on abandoned or high-risk scrapers.

## Sources
- Primary source · Scrapfly · 2026-08-11 — [6 Best Open-Source Instagram Scrapers in 2026](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-open-source-instagram-scrapers)

## Watch next
Which of these six scrapers has the lowest ban rate in production at scale?

Topics: Scrapfly, Instagram, instagram-scraping, open-source, anti-bot, web-scraping-comparison

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