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Re:Saving Instagram images automatically every hour with Nod... by menzoic on Thursday April 20, 2023 @08:56PM (#35648566)
You don't need to use a device. You can use a User-Agent header to make it look like a real device and use a proxy with an IP that a normal user would use
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Re:Saving Instagram images automatically every hour with Nod... by orsifrancesco on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:34AM (#35651151)
correct.. this is what the original repo https://github.com/orsifrancesco/instagram-without-api-node does
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Re:Saving Instagram images automatically every hour with Nod... by jeroenhd on Friday April 21, 2023 @01:23PM (#35657092)
No, that doesn't work for long enough. It appears to work for a while and then it just breaks. Very basic passive fingerprinting is enough to block something as simple as that.

Sending the right user agent (and other headers) will work for most sites, but in my experience it's not enough for Instagram.

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