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by axg11
1542 days ago
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I may be wrong about this being illegal (depending on the country you reside in), but it is certainly not an approach that scales. Meta/Instagram have multiple teams dedicated to preventing this type of scraping. Unless you're willing to invest an equivalent level of resources, any success in scraping Instagram data will be temporary. |
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If there's demand for their service I don't see why it wouldn't scale. Get more phones, more SIM cards, and have automation around all this infrastructure to automate away as much of the stuff as possible.
> Meta/Instagram have multiple teams dedicated to preventing this type of scraping
That's great but ultimately they still have a weakness: they want people to be able to see their stuff - at least some of it - without logging in. As long as you can either simulate a normal device perfectly, or even better, use real devices or virtualize them, there isn't much that Facebook can do without impacting legitimate usage which they don't want.