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by keyrat 2334 days ago
I've been using the API for a personal project, and it doesn't let you access anything that you couldn't access in the app. It was just an API you could use instead of scraping the site.

That mention in the readme from 2016 mentions a UUID banned from Whatsapp, so I'm not sure if that's what the author meant or just something copied from another readme. Either way, if Instagram was banning UUIDs it would be as trivial as getting another phone to bypass it, or to log in via a web browser.