I recently got the idea to scrape information from instagram accounts and their posts, like the amount of comments or amount of likes. I got so far that I figured out while debugging in chrome that for example the link https://www.instagram.com/instagram/?__a under the network tab returns a JSON with the wanted information, but what is actually loaded is still the normal website html code.

so far I tried in python with this code:

import urllib.request

r = urllib.request.urlopen(url)

print(r.read())

or in javascript :

window.onload = function () {

    res = fetch(https://www.instagram.com/instagram/?__a, {

        method: 'get'

    }).then(function (data) {

        return data.json();

    }).catch(function (error) {

        console.log(ERROR.concat(error.toString()));

    });

    console.log(res.user);

};

So the problem I have, is that when using these functions I only get the website code (html), is there a way to only get the JSON which is loaded in the background? I know people will recommend me using the instagram api, but I have no website nor a company to register.