Instagram Scraping Via Rapid API

IntiMech said:

Hey all.

So in my travels around the web looking at the most efficient ways to scrape Instagram users (over 5-10k a day) for their followers, followings and likes, I have come across many opinions.

One is that you can use tools on rapid API without proxies to obtain this level of data.

How is this possible? If at all? My thinking is that you would just be IP banned within an hour...

What are your thoughts?

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Real time data, no cache. Fast and stable proxies. Thousands of service accounts.

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Steptoe said:

Well the point in paying for an API to do the scraping for you is that they handle all the proxy-related stuff for you, and just give you the raw data. For instance, the most popular Instagram API on there states
You just pay for the data, no investment in proxies or accounts is needed.

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IntiMech said:

Am I making an API call to their software that handles all the proxies and scraping and then spits the information back to me?

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https://rapidapi.com/v.sobolev/api/Instagram/

ww3 said:

can scrape users general info? email, etc?

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Steptoe said:

Yep, RapidAPI acts as a middleman, so you sent the request via their servers which then gets forwarded to the service provider, who then returns the data. If we take this one for example

Code:

https://rapidapi.com/v.sobolev/api/Instagram/

just because it seems to be the most popular, you can see there are a number of different endpoints, such as likes, comments, followers, tags etc, or just the 'user' one for general info.

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