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Re:Show HN: Instagram-scraper – Scrape instagram photos by t... by donjoe on Sunday June 24, 2018 @04:48AM (#17385651)
... indeed. Isn't the script 'under the hood' calling the API anyways (looking at 'scrolldown' here)?

I reversed engineered the API myself a couple of weeks ago which was great fun - especially figuring out Instagram's rate limits on interactions such as comments and likes per day/hr.

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Re:Show HN: Instagram-scraper – Scrape instagram photos by t... by meetmangukiya on Sunday June 24, 2018 @05:32AM (#17385774)
Not the Instagram developer APIs, but the one that instagram's frontend consumes. The script scrapes instagram's frontend here.
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