How Did Tools Like Jarvee Send Instagram DMs – And How Can I Do It in Python Today?

Hey BHW community,

I’ve been digging into some older automation tools like Jarvee and one thing that always intrigued me was how it managed to send direct messages (DMs) on Instagram.

To my knowledge, Instagram doesn’t offer an official API for sending DMs from personal accounts—and definitely not for automation. So here’s the thing I’m stuck on:

How did those tools actually pull it off? Were they reverse-engineering the mobile app API? Browser automation? Some sort of proxy magic?

I’m currently building a lightweight Python script for personal use, and one of the features I’d love to implement is automated DM sending (not many, probably 20 per day). But with all the current restrictions and Instagram cracking down harder than ever, I want to take a smart, stealthy approach.

So my two questions:

1. What was the actual mechanism tools like Jarvee used to send DMs reliably?
2. What’s the best (and safest) way to send Instagram DMs using Python today—given all the changes to their platform?

If anyone’s done something similar or has some insight on the inner workings of these tools, I’d really appreciate your thoughts.

Looking forward to the black hat wisdom.
Thanks in advance

Have you checked GitHub for already existing python programs for the tasks you want to cover?

And don't think it's cost effective except for learning purposes.

Check the cost for 100k DMs on your program hypothetically vs the rate for sales mass IG DMs in marketplace.

You'll be amazed!

It's worth exploring on other platforms with better results and lesser restrictions but hey it's a free world give it your best and enjoy the ride.

Cheers...

AuxWritzau said:

Have you checked GitHub for already existing python programs for the tasks you want to cover?

And don't think it's cost effective except for learning purposes.

Check the cost for 100k DMs on your program hypothetically vs the rate for sales mass IG DMs in marketplace.

You'll be amazed!

It's worth exploring on other platforms with better results and lesser restrictions but hey it's a free world give it your best and enjoy the ride.

Cheers...

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Normally they work with the browser edition (like chromium and selenium) but i thouth there's maybe a better way.

i know that the dm providers are very cheap nowadays, but that won't fit my purpose as i'm planning to send messages written by ai on a very targeted (and small) niche, where i analyse the peoples IG account and them send them an AI based message. That's why i cannot use out of the box dm services.

I suggest you look into real device automation. API tools are good, however we personally use them for profiling accounts. If you want to do actions, for example Likes. Then you have to look into real device automation.