Just don't get a court order by Meta like the other dude that created a front-end for Instagram. Can't remember the name since it was before the pandemic. There was a lot of news about it in the FOSS community.
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Barinsta was a full client, not just a simple frontend.
That was the name! And yes, you're right. It was a full client.
Obviously I'm not a lawyer but I don't see what law they could use to shut it down. All it's doing is accessing publicly available data via a proxy. It's not like it's exploiting Instagram somehow.
If they wanna stop it, they can do what Twitter did and start requiring an account to see almost anything. Personally I suspect Meta is slowly going towards that.
Good. Then they have nothing to say about :)
Why? Fuck Instagram.
I made this because I hate Instagram, but there's still lots of valid reasons to use it.
On the one side, you're absolutely right. On the other hand, people around us are still using it, especially Musicians and Artists. If I want to find out some concert dates or check the mail of a tattoo artist I like, sometimes I have no other option than checking Instagram, despite killing the artist of my list – which I do not want to :-)
I disagree. Billions are being made, data centers and AI machines are being built that use the electricity that could power 50 million homes, and that is Meta ALONE. Your tattoo artist and musicians are perpetuating it. Oh well, they don't need my business. I don't support people that do that.
If people keep saying "but I have to", then fuck it, meta won.
Very cool. Guess I'll have to use it on the PC rather than using istander.
Awesome! Got it running and seems to work well. Also I love the CLAUDE.md file you got there in the repo 🐈
I'm happy someone noticed it
Read it now. It made my day a bit better :)
It would be great if people could stop using Meta services and software.
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Cool! Keeping up with platform changes is a challenge for projects like this. I think to be successful beyond initial popularity you need an active community that can do this together. It's draining for just one person - especially once you get big enough that they might actively break things just to mess with your integration. Following maintenance of alternative YouTube clients as well as searx-ng is illustrative.
Not to discourage but be prepared. Best of luck!
https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-09-01-discontinuing-bibliogram
I've already read that article, the situation on Instagram has changed a bit, which makes scraping easier.
Ratelimits are still a problem if you don't have a residential IP, but I have a workaround for that (which I'm hesitant to share publicly).
Nice. After Bilbogram was discontinued, I believe we all were waiting for an replacement.
Isn't it better to stop using Instagram at all? Insted of trying self-hosted shenanigans..
its better to quit heroin, but safe injection sites are good for public health
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I don't use Twitter nor insta, but sometimes I get shared a link and nitter handy to check it out without an account. So I applaud this
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