scrape-hashtag

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Discover emerging artists from Instagram hashtag pages for GalleryTalk.io outreach. Use when the user wants to find artists via hashtag (e.g., "/scrape-hashtag photography", "find artists from

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When & Why to Use This Skill

The scrape-hashtag skill is a powerful automation tool designed to discover and qualify emerging artists on Instagram. By targeting specific hashtags and applying AI-driven evaluation criteria, it streamlines the lead generation process for art galleries and platforms, ensuring that only high-quality, original creators within a specific follower range are identified and archived for outreach.

Use Cases

  • Automated Talent Scouting: Effortlessly find emerging painters, photographers, and illustrators with 1K-50K followers to expand gallery portfolios or artist rosters.
  • Niche Market Research: Scrape specific hashtags like #oilpainting or #printmakers to build a targeted database of creators for specialized art marketing campaigns.
  • Quality-Controlled Lead Generation: Use AI evaluation to automatically filter out bots, AI-generated art, and irrelevant accounts, focusing outreach efforts on high-potential human artists.
  • Content Curation: Streamline the process of gathering artist bios and artwork samples for digital features, social media spotlights, or outreach sequences.
namescrape-hashtag
descriptionDiscover emerging artists from Instagram hashtag pages for GalleryTalk.io outreach. Use when the user wants to find artists via hashtag (e.g., "/scrape-hashtag photography", "find artists from #oilpainting"). Scrapes profiles, evaluates artist fit, downloads artwork images, and saves to database.

Scrape Hashtag

Discover emerging artists (1K-50K followers) from Instagram hashtag pages who create original visual art.

Usage

/scrape-hashtag <hashtag_name>

Target Artists

Looking for: Painters, photographers, illustrators, printmakers creating original work with 1K-50K followers.

Skip: AI art, galleries, 3D/sculptors, NFT accounts, bots, accounts outside follower range.

Workflow

1. Setup

bun run cli job create hashtag <hashtag_name>
bun run cli job start <job_id>

2. Navigate to Hashtag

navigate to https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/<hashtag_name>/

Wait 3 seconds for load.

3. Discover Artists

For each post in the grid:

  1. Click post to open modal
  2. Get username from header
  3. Navigate to https://www.instagram.com/<username>/
  4. Check followers (must be 1K-50K)
  5. Extract profile + 10 recent captions
  6. Run AI qualification (see references/ai-evaluation.md)
  7. If score >= 70: scrape artist
  8. If score < 70: skip
  9. Continue until 5-10 qualifying artists found

4. Scrape Qualifying Artist

a. Extract profile data

Use JavaScript to get: username, full name, bio, followers, following, posts count.

b. Save artist

bun run cli db save-artist '{"username": "<username>", "fullName": "<name>", "bio": "<bio>", "followersCount": <n>, "followingCount": <n>, "postsCount": <n>}'

c. Extract posts from grid (Fast Method)

Run JavaScript to log URLs and get captions:

var posts = document.querySelectorAll('a[href*="/p/"]');
var data = [];
for(var i=0; i<10 && i<posts.length; i++){
  var a = posts[i];
  var img = a.querySelector('img');
  if(img && img.src){
    var sc = a.href.split('/p/')[1].split('/')[0];
    console.log('IMGURL:' + sc + ':' + img.src);
    data.push({shortcode: sc, alt: img.alt || ''});
  }
}
JSON.stringify(data)

Read URLs from console:

read_console_messages(tabId, pattern="IMGURL", limit=20)

d. Download images

mkdir -p ./data/images/<username>
curl -s -o "./data/images/<username>/<shortcode>_0.jpg" "<image_url>"

e. Save posts

bun run cli db save-post '{"shortcode": "<sc>", "artistUsername": "<user>", "postType": "image", "caption": "<alt>"}'
bun run cli db update-post-image "<shortcode>" "./data/images/<username>/<shortcode>_0.jpg"

5. Complete Job

bun run cli job complete <job_id> <artists_scraped>

Error Handling

bun run cli job fail <job_id> "<error_message>"

Resources

  • AI Evaluation Prompt: See references/ai-evaluation.md for the full artist qualification prompt and scoring criteria.