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I am new at scraping with python and I have written a simple program to save the followers of my account into a text file. I am a bit worried because of Instagram anti-bot policy and many threads online reporting of banned accounts used for scraping.

Therefore, I had 2 questions regarding Instaloader:

  1. Does the function profile.get_followers() download the full follower list at once? Or in other words, does my count variable in the following loop do anything at limiting the requests?
for followee in profile.get_followers():
    if count == 100:
        break
    else:
        follow_list.append(followee.username)
        print(follow_list[count])
        count=count+1
  1. I plan on downloading my follower list for only 1 account once every 1 or 2 weeks. The above code is working properly. Is it also safe so I don't get banned? What should I pay attention to or change in that regard?

Thanks in advance!

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