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Or maybe Meta’s walled garden is impenetrable to scraping? afaik, that’s the case for Instagram. After scouring the internet for frontends, there are 3 archetypes: black boxes like imginn, gets you images and nothing else. no source code to audit, self-host, or build an API self-hostable frontends that get rate limited almost instantly, even for a single user proper alternative clients that got cease-and-desisted into the ground They did a great job making a panopticon, closed to scraping, yet devoid of privacy