Instagram Mobile Automation

Ares1871 · Jun 15, 2026

MasonReed12 said:
UI automation is ugly, but reverse API is worse when Instagram changes one small thing

You don’t need to update Instagram a lot it’s enough if you update every 3 weeks from my experience. I use RPA and API

TargetedProxies · Sep 9, 2026

stock69 said:
Hey, I'm currently building an Instagram automation thing. I've heard that mobile API calls are the best way to go when they actually work reliably.
I've got a real Android phone that's rooted, and I've successfully bypassed SSL pinning — so now I can intercept all the network traffic from the app.
How would you guys proceed from here? What's the next step? Should I automate stuff directly on the phone (like with UI automation) or reverse-engineer the mobile API requests and build my own backend service that sends those calls programmatically?

Automate on the phone. Everything you do needs to go through the native app. There is off the shelf SW, but I would build your own custom solution to automate the UI within the native app. That combined with mobile proxies gets you as close to undetectable as you can get

duke1921 · Sep 9, 2026

API reverse-engineering sounds cool and gives mental mastubation to poke around with, but that is a waste of time. You'll soon realise.

SkyViewLinks · Sep 25, 2026

UI automation is what I have seen work most effectively, I am not a programmer but I believe some sort of python script is used and is constantly requuired maintance as IG keeps changing their interface.

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