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Isn't that Instagram scraper (https://instaloader.github.io/) against their Terms of Use? Insta really locked down their API so I assume they won't look too kindly on this. (although it doesn't require login so they can't really punish accounts)


Zuckerberg is very happy to bend/break the rules and abuse his customers when it suits him, so screw him. These aren't instagram's images anyway - they're the images of the people who painted them, and the people who photographed them.


Its really horrible how locked down modern websites are. I wanted to write a script that would send me an email when a new event was listed on a facebook group but I saw that facebook has gone above and beyond to make sure the only way to see new events is to keep using their website.

Instagram has a really terrible web UI as well. When I want to share an image I see on it I have to open the inspector to get the image url because they blocked right click copy image.


It does require a login for stuff that you need a login for on the web interface (private accounts you follow and you also need to be authenticated to view anyone's stories)




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