What kind of things are people scrapping Insta for? I have a hard time with scrapping apps anyways, but at least some of it makes sense when making comparisons on prices or what not. But I'm just not imaginatve to come up with why you'd want to scrape obviously copyrighted images.

'*Also, I'm not an Insta user, so in my mind it is just a thread of images and comments. Maybe my understanding of Insta is off?

I scrape the data that public officials post (thought not on instagram yet) -- that has lots of utility in determining their positions on issues, where in their jurisdiction they visit most, who they're meeting with, etc.

Friends and family publish via Instagram but I don’t use it myself. Scraping allows me to follow via “RSS” feeds so I’m not left out.

(Remember when Facebook and Twitter had this built in?)

Real state agencies in my town post newly available properties on insta. I'm looking for a place to rent so I'd like to scrape it so that I don't have to be checking my phone constantly.

have we really gotten to the point that this is the only place they post the data? you have to be "cool" to know the listings are available rather than checking "lame" websites? If true, I weep for society

Unfortunately yes. More and more stuff is being monopolized by Facebook.

This just seems like it would violate some sort of MLS rule.

If scraping Instagram was allowed or easy, there are a tonne of use cases. One example: detection of products and sentiment for marketing (e.g. a post: I love my new Apple Watch!)

yep, it is. The one loophole that made it easy to scrape was using the Facebook URL scrape API, but they removed that loophole a year or so ago.