Instagram-API vs instagram_private_api

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Instagram-API		instagram_private_api
	Project
1	Mentions	10
117	Stars	2,857
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
7 months ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Instagram-API

Posts with mentions or reviews of Instagram-API. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.

Is there a self hosted social manager?
6 projects | /r/selfhosted | 8 Jan 2023

Some have tried to reverse engineer the API (https://github.com/ping/instagram_private_api, https://github.com/danleyb2/Instagram-API) but you run the risk of getting your account banned if Meta cracks down on TOS abuse.

instagram_private_api

Posts with mentions or reviews of instagram_private_api. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.

Is there a self hosted social manager?
6 projects | /r/selfhosted | 8 Jan 2023

Some have tried to reverse engineer the API (https://github.com/ping/instagram_private_api, https://github.com/danleyb2/Instagram-API) but you run the risk of getting your account banned if Meta cracks down on TOS abuse.
Uploading to Instagram
1 project | /r/learnpython | 5 Apr 2022

... if your trying to use selenium, or pyautogui, don't some smart people have made Instagram Private API. Which means you can interact with Instagram as a user.
Python for Insta
1 project | /r/learnpython | 2 Dec 2021
Auto Instagram follow, help
1 project | /r/learnpython | 20 Oct 2021
Instagram and Python
1 project | /r/learnpython | 18 Oct 2021
Help with the Osintgram
1 project | /r/HowToHack | 13 Jul 2021

I suspect there are two major issues that could be into play SSL Certificate: This Osint Application uses a private Instagram API which usually works fine but, as it's an unofficial api (since Instagram stripped it's development api to the open users)the website which your computer is trying to access, it's ssl/root certificate is either isn't valid, doesn't exist or the signatures in the library in Python is out of dated which could pull to issue number 2
Hey. I want to scrape Instagram for some hashtag information. But I don't wanna get blocked or something. How to do it legally?
1 project | /r/learnpython | 28 Jun 2021

Not sure of the legality but I did find this open source project on github that might be worth looking into: https://github.com/ping/instagram_private_api
I am looking for a library that can help me read instagram messages from my inbox, but I just can't find anything and can't come up with a way to write this in python.
1 project | /r/learnpython | 25 Mar 2021
How is this user built Instagram API connecting with the official Instagram API?
1 project | /r/learnpython | 24 Feb 2021
Program to display new posts on an Instagram page
1 project | /r/learnpython | 20 Feb 2021

Or you can try with this: Instagram Private API This emulates the official app and has a larger set of functions and less limitations (it can do what you've asked). Don't know if it's up to date anymore, but it should server as a good starting point regardless.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Instagram-API and instagram_private_api you can also consider the following projects:

dndserver - Dark and Darker private server implementation written in Python

instagrapi - 🔥 The fastest and powerful Python library for Instagram Private API 2024

Socioboard - Socioboard is world's first and open source Social Technology Enabler. Socioboard Core is our flagship product.

instagram-scraper - Scrapes an instagram user's photos and videos

InstaPy - 📷 Instagram Bot - Tool for automated Instagram interactions

python-facebook - A simple Python wrapper for facebook graph api :sparkles: :cake: :sparkles: .

Shoutify - An open source, self-hosted, and entirely free solution to social media management.

n8n - Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.

Osintgram - Osintgram is a OSINT tool on Instagram. It offers an interactive shell to perform analysis on Instagram account of any users by its nickname