Instagram scraping

What is it ? Does all it do is give you data ? Or does it let you make them follow you or you can mass message ?

It appears that a method of instagram scraping has to do with the collection of emails. That, in itself, sounds a bit fishy though. How viable would it be to market to people that would perceive you as a stranger? But, anyway. From the looks of things, it just seems to be a collection of data.

Karyn Cathcart said:

What is it ? Does all it do is give you data ? Or does it let you make them follow you or you can mass message ?

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With this you can scrape large lists of targeted users you can feed your followings with.

Its indeed to scrape = gather data

scrapng is to collect data. it could be for emails to contact them for any offer or collab. Or simply scraping the usernames to follow them later. or even getting the follower and following count to filter it. Any act of collecting data is called scraping

pragmaticprince said:

It appears that a method of instagram scraping has to do with the collection of emails. That, in itself, sounds a bit fishy though. How viable would it be to market to people that would perceive you as a stranger? But, anyway. From the looks of things, it just seems to be a collection of data.

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Well, most of the E-Mail come from business profiles and you have to think of it just like an Impressum on a website. The user excliptly consents to Instagram to display his E-Mail publicly as a contact method.

Otherwhise someone could just link his E-Mail address to his profile and then sue everyone contacting him for can-spam act violation.

Karyn Cathcart said:

What is it ? Does all it do is give you data ? Or does it let you make them follow you or you can mass message ?

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I have detailed explanations about it in https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/making-conversions-off-ig-leads-wake-up-marketing-guide.1126171/ and https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/ig-scraping-email-full-name-username-and-phone-no-unique-for-you-boost-sales.1166625/.

Essentially, it is about streamlined targeting, getting people that have intent to purchase which you can determine simply by getting these people from a well defined source and intentional following.

The logic is the same: get your competitor's followers/buyers and hijack them away from the competitor by repurposed marketing via email.