instagram-scraper VS instagram_private_api

I used to use https://github.com/arc298/instagram-scraper

There was a FOSS program that worked. The problem is, if they detect anything remotely like scraping, they'll ban your account. I don't know what a good "pause" amount of time to set in the program would be to get around their flags. I think this was the one I used before (and got my account banned.) https://github.com/arc298/instagram-scraper And then if you don't login, they make you wait a really long time between downloads and you can't access some information (like your saves.)

You are correct, I should be using programName directly, not sure why I was invoking it using python3. The package is instagram-scraper. Still, when I just call "instagram-scraper" with appropriate arguments I get:

Would this project help you in any way? it allows scraping posts by location, among other features https://github.com/arc298/instagram-scraper

I think I was using this https://github.com/arc298/instagram-scraper

to download every data of an account, https://github.com/arc298/instagram-scraper worked. But be warned it's output is a complete mess and nothing is sorted

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.

... 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.

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

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

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.