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Bandi Tóth
Bandi Tóth

Reputation: 167

How Instagram autolikers bypassing the API deprecation?

In the past, Instagram autoliker, autofollower, like exchanger bots worked with the Instagram API. Thankfully, to keep Instagram - bot safe, they deprecated their API functionallity, so developers can no longer use Commenting, Liking endpoints. But nowdays, I'm again meet new and new spam comments under a picture in the feed. I did some research about the new autolikers. How did the developers, like SocialCaptain bypass the API deprecation? Are they simulating the user browsing instagram.com?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 150

Answers (1)

Valentin
Valentin

Reputation: 420

Actually you can just monitor the requests being sent from instagram.com. Open the developer tools and navigate to the Network tab.

Now you can reverse engineer their API by looking the requests they send on particular actions. The only thing left is to supply the proper body, headers, cookies, etc and perform the requests on your own outside of instagram.com.

Hope it helps !

Upvotes: 1

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