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Give Me Some Advice
4 points by bigbaldhead 348 days ago
I created a script that downloads entire accounts from Instagram without login, give me some advice

https://github.com/seraphin0/INSTA-DL

3 comments

Should have used a chinese hosting service like https://gitee.com/ for reasons of ...errm... legal ambivalence ;->
You should have kept this private
Get a good lawyer...
why?
> You can't attempt to create accounts or access or collect information in unauthorized ways. This includes creating accounts or accessing or collecting information in an automated way without our express permission, regardless of whether such automated access or collection is undertaken while logged-in to an Instagram account.

https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870

ToS are not law.
OK then, don't get a good lawyer.

Shrugs..

Let Instagram's legal team roll right over you.

And if the data you are stealing belongs to accounts belonging to people based in Europe, GDPR will join the rolling over party.

Have fun.

I thought the photos (the script only downloads the photos) were public and could be downloaded
>the data you are stealing

when you look at a picture in your browser or an app, it's already been 'stolen' to your device.

half a billion teenage girls are 'stealing' data from instagram twelve hours a day.

removed it, I hate instagram