Hi, I'm an MA student study in Finland and writing my thesis about young activists in the climate strike movement, I'm trying to collect images of protest signs with hashtags on Instagram and I found your solution very helpful
https://www.4kdownload.com/howto/how-to-download-instagram-photos-by-hashtag
But since the Instagram policy has changed, is it illegal for this automated method of scraping data? My research would be mainly focused on the meme-based communication in those signs, so I need to start with hashtags, then filter with time log to get qualitative data(maybe less than 5 images use the meme technique)
It takes highly consideration of research ethics in the academic area so I need to be very careful, otherwise, I might turn into other platforms like Flickr to reach my data, thanks for ypur time and responding!