Scraping data from Instagram
<p>I actually just need the <strong>followers count</strong> of a public account,
for example <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kygomusic/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/kygomusic/</a></p>

<p>The new Instagram's API rules are very strict (and discussed):
<strong>It's now impossible to access public content for most of common apps. You need a public_content scope that is not granted to normal app (?!)</strong></p>

<blockquote>
  <p>public_content: This permission (public_content) is only granted to
  apps that enable brands, advertisers, broadcasters and publishers to
  discover public content. We do not grant access to apps that do not
  fall into these categories. Please review our documentation
  (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/developer/review" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/developer/review</a>) for more information.</p>
</blockquote>

<h2>So I decided to scrape the data from Instagram</h2>

<p>An option is to use <strong>file_get_contents()</strong> (PHP) and it works but it loads all the site from my server and it's pretty heavy. So my first idea was to use <strong>YQL</strong>. I use it for Twitter and works well, but when I scrape data from Instagram I get <strong>nothing</strong>:</p>

<p><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D&#39;https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fkygomusic%2F&#39;&amp;env=store%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltableswithkeys" rel="nofollow">http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D'https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fkygomusic%2F'&amp;env=store%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltableswithkeys</a></p>