Bypass IG bans for story scraping

[FlatBlackCoffee]

Hi,
I am looking for help to scrape big amount of IG stories. Therefore I use multiple accounts to set login token and use the internal IG story API to get the data. For the accounts I tried different proxies(including 4G proxies,...) and the accounts get maintained nearly daily(liking + following + story watching). This solution worked well in the past, but recently I faced three "main types of bans":

1. Suspicious Login Attempt(confirmation mail)
2. Suspicious Login and activities (confirmation mail + password change required)
3. Account totally blocked and lost (Captcha and account review by IG)

I run out of ideas how i can improve my system to not get blocked or banned because also block 1 & 2 require manual work to reactivate the account.

I already tried several things like adding phone numbers, adding profile information (bio, profile picture, gender,...), creating accounts with mobile app or using two IPs for an account.
My fallback solution would be to use scripts for mass registration of account which get blocked quickly - but also this solution is not really long term compatible.

Do you have any ideas/tips to avoid one or more of the bans/blocks? Also some information how IG detect bots or suspicious actions would be helpful, also with technical details(cookies, request headers,...).
And what is the better way to go in this usecase, quality(run a low amount of high quality accounts) or quantity(regularly create big amounts of low quality accounts which get blocked fast)?

 

[rootjazz]

(1) and (2) you can automate. Same for captcha, only one you cannot is "review" by IG which is just a ban, they will not review anything.

But if you are getting that many bans scraping stories only, I'd be surprised. Are you sure you have the automtion correct? Leaving enough pauses? What kind of numbers are you talking about?
Could it be other footprints? Could your proxies be bad? Account creation been footprinted?

 

[bigj]

1. Suspicious Login Attempt(confirmation mail)
2. Suspicious Login and activities (confirmation mail + password change required)
3. Account totally blocked and lost (Captcha and account review by IG)

I run out of ideas how i can improve my system to not get blocked or banned because also block 1 & 2 require manual work to reactivate the account.

I already tried several things like adding phone numbers, adding profile information (bio, profile picture, gender,...), creating accounts with mobile app or using two IPs for an account.

You're honestly doin too much at once. I'm assuming that once you receive suspicious login or action block you try to continue to do actions? Same with adding a phone number, adding bio, profile pic, etc all at the same time? IG sees doing too many things as once as suspicious and therefore lowers your trust score. My biggest advice would be to rest your account for 72 hours and warm up slowly.

 

[FlatBlackCoffee]

Hi, sorry for my late answer.
Numbers are couple of millions a day. What is a recommended rest time for an account? Or how many hours a day can I scrape stories?

I don't think that there are any footprints and also the automation should be correct.

Thx @bigj i will consider that in the future.

 

[rootjazz]

Numbers are couple of millions a day. What is a recommended rest time for an account? Or how many hours a day can I scrape stories?

Using how many accounts?

IF these accounts are ONLY scraping story endpoints hour after hour. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what you are doing, hence the blocks / challenges/ bans. No real user does this. And IG probably have a few rocket scientists working there

 

[imccafey]

I would suggest you to optimize the daily actions for your accounts, because IG has become super alert recently so you might want to start with a reduced number of actions and then optimize and increase from there. Jarvee is more of a learn as you go thing so you can't be absolutely sure whether your current actions are optimum.

Regarding proxies, are you using individual proxies for all your accounts? Most importantly, is the proxy provider reliable? Are you sure you aren't using proxies with banned IPs? These are the small things yet determinants of great importance that keep your Jarvee set up in one piece.