[lozenge]

Marketers and customer service need to be able to manage their social accounts, that's a product space which inherently relies on API access to those website. Maybe you wouldn't want to build that product, but clearly somebody will.

[gloosx]

Could you just use API's IG app uses itself to manage accounts? And scrape the data you need with GET requests behind a proxy list? Before any public APIs everybody was doing it, is it any hard these days to fall back to regular user API instead of some fancy regulated 'developer-only' API?

[altdataseller]

Its all rate limited. Inpossible to scrape

[gloosx]

Rate limited for what? Totally possible to buy 1000 SOCKS5 proxies for cheap, what's the deal with the limit?

[altdataseller]

They block datacenter IPs. Yiu need residential IPs.

[gloosx]

I'm pretty sure rate-limiting or blocking something using IP is not robust at all (except you wanna protect from teenagers?)

IP proxies are sold for cheap en masse, datacenter, residential, regional, whatever filter you like.

[altdataseller]

Have you even attempted to scrape Instagram? You're just throwing hypotheticals at me, but the reality is different if you even attempted to do it.