ping/instagram_private_api
Instagram Private Api
This Python library is a private API wrapper that provides programmatic access to Instagram features by communicating with internal mobile endpoints. It functions as a social media automation toolkit for managing profiles, publishing media, and interacting with the social graph.
The library uses a reverse-engineered API to mimic the communication patterns and request headers of mobile applications. It incorporates a session manager that persists authentication cookies and client metadata to maintain active logins and reduce the frequency of authentication handshakes.
Its capabilities cover media content publishing for posts and stories, as well as the extraction of social feeds and profile data. The toolset includes utilities for managing social connections, automating likes and comments, and retrieving location-based content. It also provides controls for account management and story privacy settings.
Features
- Reverse-Engineered API Clients - Implements a reverse-engineered client to communicate with undocumented internal mobile endpoints.
- Private API Wrappers - Acts as a Python wrapper for Instagram's internal mobile API to provide full programmatic access.
- Instagram - Provides automated execution of common Instagram actions like following, liking, and commenting.
- Social Media Content Management - Enables programmatic uploading and management of photos, videos, stories, and reels with associated metadata.
- Post Interaction Automations - Programmatically controls likes, follows, and comments to interact with users and posts.
- Social Engagement Automations - Provides controls for managing likes, follows, and comments to interact with other users.
- Automated Content Publishing - Enables uploading photos and videos to create new posts or stories via automated workflows.
- Mobile API Interaction - Enables programmatic communication with mobile interfaces using user credentials.
- Internal API Access - Provides access to undocumented internal functions and endpoints reserved for mobile applications.
- Social Media Automation Clients - Ships a unified interface for automating login, session management, media posting, and follower analysis.
- Session State Management - Maintains an active connection state by tracking client metadata and session cookies across API calls.
- Social Media Publishers - Offers programmatic capabilities to publish photos and videos to posts and stories via mobile endpoints.
- Session-Cookie Persistences - Caches authentication tokens and session cookies locally to maintain logins and avoid account flagging.
- Persistent Session Managers - Provides a system for persisting authentication tokens and session data to avoid frequent manual logins.
- Device Signature Emulation - Constructs request headers that imitate mobile device signatures to bypass server-side restrictions.
- Location-Based Post Queries - Allows fetching media and story feeds based on specific geographic location identifiers.
- Social Graph API Clients - Provides a client for querying the social graph, including follower management and targeted feed retrieval.
- Social Connection Management - Provides utilities for managing social relationships, including following, unfollowing, and maintaining block lists.
- Comment Management Tools - Allows retrieving, translating, or deleting individual and bulk comments attached to media.
- Media Asset Managers - Supports creating, deleting, and updating media assets and organizing highlights.
- Social Media Content Retrievers - Fetches content streams and media metadata based on users, locations, tags, or popularity.
- User Profile Retrieval - Enables retrieving user attributes and profile data from public accounts without authentication.
- Web Interface Interaction - Enables fetching public or private data specifically from the web interface.
- Social Media Extraction Tools - Implements scrapers for extracting detailed profile information, social feeds, and location-based content.
- Web APIs - Provides functionality to fetch data from web endpoints using public and authenticated requests.
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