Hi Megan It looks like this information is available via Instagram’s API - https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/likes/ You could relatively easily collect data on every post related to a particular hashtag (the content of the post, the username, the data/time etc), and alongside that it seems you will need to collect the following additional elements: Likes Count, Likes Data Full Name, Likes Data Username. I’ve created a post on my research project site that walks through a process similar to this - http://harkive.org/datcolzap/ - the particular focus of which is the collection of data from multiple social media channels (Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, etc) into a single database. The principle should be the same for your purposes, however. The only problem I can see with this method is that likes change over time. If you collect data on a post using an automated method similar to the one I describe above, it will collect that data close to the point in time it was made, but you need data on the amount of likes that post achieves. Depending on the timescale of your project, then, it may be useful to collect data in more than one batch, into more than one destination. This will collect the same posts but the Likes Count data will be different. Given that, you may need look into how long back the API allows you to search. Not a perfect solution, but it should get you started. All the best Craig Craig Hamilton Rm364, The School of Media 3rd Floor, The Parkside Building Birmingham City University Birmingham, B5 t: @craigfots e: craig.hamilton@bcu.ac.uk<mailto:craig.hamilton@bcu.ac.uk> On 4 Aug 2017, at 23:09, Megan Wahl <megan.m.meyer@gmail.com<mailto:megan.m.meyer@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear All, I am a current PhD candidate conducting Instagram research and was referred to this list serve by my professor. I am hoping you can assist in a quick question I have as I develop the methods section of my dissertation. For a portion of my study, I am requesting access to (if not already public) participant Instagram accounts of those enrolled. From participant Instagram feeds, I would like to search for and identify the number of images with a particular hashtag as well as the top 10 images with that hashtag based on number of likes. Is there a tool you are aware of that I could use to extract this sort of data for specific user accounts vs the entire Instagram platform? I'm familiar with the hashtag searching functions on platforms such as Netlytic but would like to narrow the search functionality to only the Instagram accounts of those participants in my sample. Thank you in advance for any suggestions/insights you may have! Sincerely, Megan Megan M. Wahl, MDT PhD Candidate - Public Health Community and Behavioral Health Promotion Research Assistant University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Zilber School of Public Health 1240 N 10th St Milwaukee, WI 53205 Ph: (414) 227-3001 Fax: 414-227-3002 E-Mail: Meyer276@uwm.edu<mailto:Meyer276@uwm.edu> Pronouns in use: she/her/hers _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/