Tell HN: Instagram's API has broken, support tickets ignored, status page green

Post by altdataseller » Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 10:51 PM UTC

gloosx wrote: post #79

altdataseller wrote: post #77

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Its all rate limited. Inpossible to scrape

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

Post by altdataseller » Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 1:53 PM UTC

gloosx wrote: post #82

altdataseller wrote: post #81

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They block datacenter IPs. Yiu need residential IPs.

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.

Post by altdataseller » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 3:07 PM UTC

gloosx wrote: post #84

altdataseller wrote: post #83

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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.

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.