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Hey, anybody else who get a lot Account Blocks with "There was a problem with your request" ('generic_request_error' in the response json of the login ajax call) since ~ 3 days? My bots are dropping like flies. (I use residential proxies for login and other proxies for scraping/api calls)

I am looking for a way to scrape "About this account" information from Instagram you see when you click on the username (App or Web), which contains Data like Account Registration date or Country. In the Browser it fetches the information from this URL...

Is there a difference between MobileApp and Web Cookies in terms of rate limits, security checks,... when running IG Bots. I run bots for scraping using a self developped scraper where I inject web cookies int selenium sessions, do some "normal" activities (linking, following,...) and meanwhile...

Hi, lately I recognized that there are likes missing when I embed instagram postings into a website using the official instagram post embed code. I assume, that paid interactions(interactions during sponsoring this post) are missing. Example: Add "/embed/captioned/" to the URL to get the...

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.

Hi, I am a bhw reader for a long time, now with an account. Mostly interested in instagram scraping. Greets

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 +...