@alossra Nice cheers ! It’s interesting, but I prefer to say to my clients that IG made changes in there API that’s why there is so many bugs… it’s easier like that
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that is probably a good idea to avoid too many unwanted questions from the clients and Convince them that everything will be fine
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Do you know if Embed browser works with API or more like the Selenium type of bot?
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EB is a browser that is like firefox or chrome. It does not use private api it uses public - browser - calls as any other browser( edge, firefox, chrome opera, safari)
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amazing, thanks for the reply!
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yeah that is basically what the EB is
Thank you for the explanation 
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Thank you very much for the explanation! I was a bit confused about APIs but it’s much clearer now 
So does this mean that if we use a private android api, we can make it look as if the app was being used without actually using the app to do actions on IG?
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you can use Instagram’s private API by imitating the Android app.
some Instagram bots may be using a hacked version of the Instagram API
and if you use the private Instagram Graph API, you will be allowed to create features around scheduling, commenting, and analytics, actions like follow ,like…etc
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All I can say is that this is indeed an automated method. All that IG receives is a https call from an Android phone.
features that you can do:
- Follow / unfollow
- Upload / delete medias
- Search & Iterate for Location, Users, Hashtags
- Edit account profile
- Resolve challenges (Captcha, Phone verification, Email verification)
- Access media from many sources profile / location / hashtag
- Access feeds for timeline or discovery
- Create and manage new accounts
- Send direct messages or list direct messages in inbox
and many more
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At the end do Instagram know that you’re using a private API? Most of people always said they have their own API, which is not related to official API, but the main question is do they know that you’re doing such a action via API calls?
Some people said yes, and they conclude that Instagram allowed such a type of bot for their own benefits, like more engagement, more spent time, hence more revenue from it. But I don’t see that is true, otherwise Instagram don’t shutdown massplanner forcefully.
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Finally a good explanation for this. Thank you!
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it looks legit tbh i don’t think someone knows if they can bust it! as long as it’s still working than everything is fine… but technically most bots are in violation of Instagram TOS
you’re welcome bro I’m so happy that you find my post helpful 
This person uses a private api and they have 1,000,000+ Downloads
thanks for the explanation ,but are you sure that instagram doesn’t know about this private API thing!
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Your Welcome Bro well i think if we wanna really verefy it 100/100 well have to ask them personally about it! x)
I suggest you do not ask them, so things don’t get worse.
if done properly they cannot tell the difference via app or outside app(bots and such).
they cannot hide the private private api either as the insta app uses them.
Jarvee imho has the best coders for this.
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Hi bro, thanks for explanations. But if we look at Jarvee what is it better to use? EB or their API only?
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ofc i was kidding xD lol
its always better to use API only… and Jarvee will tell you to use EB when you get action Blocked on API
but really if you get action blocked on the api that doesn’t mean you have to do that action on the EB to trick ig just wait some time than try to follow!
you’re welcome bro
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Here you touched my area of expertise I will just clarify things:
API -> simple as an interface between the user and the system, for what you need one? to request information, to update, to delete, to execute a process or whatever the API developer programmed.
OK now… going to IG word, at this point only IG offers the Instagram Graph API https://www.instagram.com/developer/
and it is deprecating the old Instagram Platform API https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/01/30/instagram-graph-api-updates/
They left most of the developers without a chance of using the new API, and a few “authorized” apps can make us of it.
So after that many developers started to build solutions to somehow access the data, those are NOT Instagram PRIVATE APIs, it doesn’t exist that, (you can find some developers using that name, basically to get people’s attention and a few more downloads). However anyone can build a system that includes API as well, very common practice in order to avoid website scraping for example.
And to control the access to your information, you will need an API ID provided by the creator.
(CNN API for news, WeatherChannel etc you got the point)
I’m one of those developers that I’m building tools to get what I cannot with the IG API.
I hope is a bit more clear now
Note: I tried to use common language, so all the software engineers colleagues out there, bare with me pls.
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