[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.

[gloosx]

I'm pretty sure because I scraped a lot of stuff, maybe not Instagram but I don't see how it's any different. Reality of protocols is quite stable, and as long as you can send HTTP requests to Instagram servers and get documents back, you can find a way to scale it.