Cannot import name 'Post' from 'instascrape'

Question

I'm trying to set up instascraper from this article: https://github.com/chris-greening/instascrape/blob/master/tutorial/tutorial/Part%201%20-%20Intro%20to%20the%20API.ipynb

But already when running just this:

from instascrape import Post, Profile, Hashtag

I get the following error:

ImportError: cannot import name 'Post' from 'instascrape' (unknown location)

How can I fix this?

I've installed the library using

pip3 install insta-scrape

user_17865804 · Answer

Make sure to install insta-scrape, and not a package with a similar name.

pip3 install insta-scrape

Update

Additionally, make sure to uninstall any other packages that may use the same module name, i.e., "instascrape". Most importantly, please make sure you do not name your python file, or any other file in the directory your working from "instascrape.py". That might be another reason causing that error.

Cannot import name 'Post' from 'instascrape'

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