When making bots use the API or headless browser?

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tutchi24

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I'm building two new bots one for IG and one for Twitter. What do most people use the REST API provided by them or a headless browser? Can I avoid all the rate limiting if I use a headless browser?

 

longdouble

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tutchi24 said:

I'm building two new bots one for IG and one for Twitter. What do most people use the REST API provided by them or a headless browser? Can I avoid all the rate limiting if I use a headless browser?

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You're likely buying wrong bots if you ask such questions.

 

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tutchi24

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I'm not buying them I'm making them myself

 

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If you built it with PhantomJS or something similar you can make it leave whatever footprint you want rather than relying on what the API allows e.g InstaGram doesn't allow photo upload through the API, but you could script the headless browser to do it.