Archiving Instagram feeds

New Instagram seeds will have the default scoping rules automatically applied at the seed level when they are added to a collection. To learn more, including how you can add default scoping rules to existing seeds, please visit Sites with automated scoping rules.

To Successfully Crawl Instagram Seeds:

1. Be specific. Always include a specific user, followed by a / at the end. For example https://www.instagram.com/internetarchive/
   
2. Use the Standard seed type for Instagram seeds
   
3. Ignore robots.txt at the seed level -OR- Add a collection level scoping rule to ignore robots.txt for the hosts www.instagram.com and fbcdn.net
   
4. Add a seed-level expand scope rule to include URL if it contains the text instagram.com/p/
   
   

Your archived Instagram pages should play back accurately in Wayback with the following exceptions: 

• We are at present only able to consistently replay the default (up to 12 images) scroll of the dynamically loading content for Instagram pages.