Anyone else think this is bullshit? It's just an outline of what an automated bot would have to do to work with some technical buzzwords mixed in.
Not saying it's not doable, nor that OP didn't actually do it... but I am tired of all these people posting technical fantasies to improve their social presence.
It's doable for sure, but making an auto-posting bot for instagram isn't easy right now. How did he post without access to the business API, and I don't think the "Private API" is the answer, I've gone down that road and had a few accounts banned because of it. This is clearly just an attempt to boost their LinkedIn blogging ambitions.
I think the fact I had four accounts, one personal, and three that were posting a lot of content twice a day contributed to one of the accounts getting banned. I think there are a few things that will get you banned, and it's not hard for IG to tell what actions are coming from the app and when they aren't. Uploading via Selenium or another headless browser emulating a mobile device seems to be the best way to do it without emulating an entire phone.
After the first page or so I thought to myself the day when Instagram is a majority of bots posting, liking, following and unfollowing each other is not too far off, technically. I realize that's not the goal of IG, but...
Either way this isn't the first time, or probably the last, we see gaming IG this year. [0]
Number of bots were actually much higher a few years ago. Lots of likes, comments and follows were all automated by brands. They did a good job to ban lots of bots. So it seems less likely that it is the future of Instagram.
I automated my Instagram account when start use Bigbangram and Instazood bots. I like Bigbangram bot more because it has faster and can connect as many Instagram accounts to one account as need.
You'll get rate limited and then banned pretty quickly with these in my experience. Having a real phone and using the strategies you see in clickfarms with emulated input is the best way.
It's fairly easy especially if there is a legacy mobile app for the site. In Instagram's case you just use an older version of the app which works for legacy devices and reverse engineer it. Most the mobile apps have their own API which they connect to, so you just pretend to be the mobile app and you have access to all the features. It also doesn't change much because mostly they can't risk breaking old installs with a high install count. Use a new IP address for each account you manage. Limit the number of actions and randomize it so 30 follows day 1, followed by 2 follows, maybe 10 posts, followed by 3 posts so it's not 3 posts per day every day.
My main issue I've had is a lot of the IPs (like 1 in every 15 or so) I went through were already banned from IG or suspicious enough to block me from posting.
You can post to Instagram from a desktop browser if you set per-site user agent to fake as mobile browser. Then you can use screen automation such as Selenium to integrate with the headless browser.
"The Content Publishing API is in closed beta with Facebook Marketing Partners and Instagram Partners only. We are not accepting new applicants at this time."
For years other automated Instagram posting tools don't give you any help for the caption.
I've asked those service providers to open up their API so I could have a bot create a caption and add it to an entry on their calendar, before THEY post it to Instagram
There isn't much competition in this space, and their clientele is not that sophisticated. Companies will gladly pay an endless supply of cheap "social media managers" aka random Gen-Z "youngster gud with the compooters"
Not saying it's not doable, nor that OP didn't actually do it... but I am tired of all these people posting technical fantasies to improve their social presence.