instagram_private_api VS Shoutify

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.

I was working on one until Elon bought twitter and I kind of fell off. I might pick it back up. https://github.com/TechSquidTV/Shoutify