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Does Instagram allow scraping?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 20, 2024

Instagram's terms allow limited scraping for non-commercial personal use. Best practices to avoid blocks include scraping slowly, varying user agents, avoiding logging in, and using proxies. Commercial scraping alternatives include the Instagram API and data resellers.

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