Laravel eloquent query running twice

I'm scraping some data from Instagram and then creating a record of it in the database, but sometimes, the record will be inserted twice (or more). When I add an echo in the code it only prints/echos once, so I'm not sure why sometimes the records insert multiple times. Here's the code:

public function handle()
{

    #Define variables
    $medias = [];
    $hashtags = [];
    $locations = [];
    $users = [];
    $biography_hashtags = [];
    $biography_users = [];
    $postLikes = [];
    $postComments = [];
    $website_id = null;
    $user_id = null;
    $avg_dataset_start = null;
    $avg_dataset_end = null;

    try {
        $api = new \Instagram\Api();
        $api->setUserName($this->username);
        $obj = $api->getFeed();

        #quick hack to convert to nested obj
        $data = json_decode(json_encode($obj));

        $data->videos_count = 0;
        $data->pictures_count = 0;
        $data->avgPostLikes = 0;
        $data->avgPostComments = 0;
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        return $e;
    }

    $account = InstagramAccount::where('instagram_id', $data->id)->orWhere('username', $data->userName)->first();

        $scraped_data = InstagramAccountScrape::create([
            'instagram_account_id' => $account->id,
            'username' => $data->userName,
            'full_name' => $data->fullName,
            'biography' => $data->biography,
            'profile_picture_url' => $data->profilePicture,
            'external_url' => $data->externalUrl,
            'website_id' => $website_id,
            'media_count' => $data->mediaCount,
            'followers_count' => $data->followers,
            'following_count' => $data->following,
            'avg_likes_count' => $data->avgPostLikes,
            'avg_comments_count' => $data->avgPostComments,
            'avg_dataset_start' => $avg_dataset_start,
            'avg_dataset_end' => $avg_dataset_end,
            'avg_dataset_photos_count' => $data->pictures_count,
            'avg_dataset_videos_count' => $data->videos_count,
            'is_private' => $data->private,
            'is_verified' => $data->verified,
            'user_id' => $user_id,
        ]);
    return response()->json($scraped_data);
}

via Chebli Mohamed