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Re:Instagram deprecates majority of their API by jameslevy on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:31PM (#16758735)
The solution is obvious. Allow people to export their data at least in a bulk snapshot, for the purpose of data portability.

However, make it somewhat difficult/scary to do this, so that a personality quiz app won't be able to successfully trick you into agreeing to it.

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Re:Instagram deprecates majority of their API by tedmiston on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:06PM (#16761460)
There have been some third party services [1] that allow a data dump of your Instagram photos... which probably just lost their functionality in the API deprecation.

(Though I think they were really _just_ the photos without the other data like your stories, drafts, comments, followers and followings graph, etc.)

Perhaps locking it down puts pressure on IG to provide an official solution since others can't.

Or... one could write some code to run a headless browser and scrape everything that can be loaded on desktop.

[1]: https://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/07/01/instaport-download-yo...

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Re:Instagram deprecates majority of their API by samfisher83 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:53PM (#16758954)
You can export your data. They even list what you can export:

https://www.facebook.com/help/405183566203254?helpref=page_c...

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Re:Instagram deprecates majority of their API by nugi on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:10PM (#16759137)
'What you can export' is not the totality of data provided by, or collected about you. Only what they choose, or are compelled, to reveal.
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Re:Instagram deprecates majority of their API by hyfen on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:20PM (#16759232)
It also doesn't include any Instagram data
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