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Bibliogram is being discontinued, and Barinsta doesn't work anymore too..

Is there some good soul providing an instagram frontend or app? I really need it to see events, but i don't want to get caught in those useless post suggestions and ads, i just wanna see the content i chose to see.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Proxigram, from Instances - Proxigram - Codeberg.org:

If you get an error, try F5-ing a few times, it usually works at some point.

They also have RSS Feeds for accounts.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I host https://proxigram.kyun.li and it is currently down, will work again soon :)

EDIT: Instance is working again

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

THANK YOU very much for your work!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I love Lemmy because you can see that people actually understand that foss platforms don't keep themselves up magically but there's actually people involved that work hard for making internet a better place without any economical incentive, but just their ideal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because half of us host an instance lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The RSS feature is amazing, i wanted to do something like that with RSS Bridge, but it looks like both Instagram and Facebook are doing their best to block exactly these kind of things, so it works half of the times and it needs to be fixed quite often, i think now it doesn't work very well either... Also it is very complicated to be set up if you don't know a bit of PHP. Of course i'm willing to learn but all this blocking that projects like this (see Barinsta or Bibliogram) get is really discouraging. I think Meta content is probably one of the worst to scrape.

Regarding Proxygram: for now it works, i'm using a public istance to grab some RSS feeds, if it proves to be reliable i will be happy to host my own istance as well, if possible :) It's sometimes slow to grab data (i guess because sessions get easily blocked/limited, getting error 500) but not really a problem as i just want to see new events every couple of days, one issue tho is that the RSS doesn't show all the posts (only showing the last three of them), which can be annoying as you may lose something if you don't see it and save it.

EDIT: It actually does get other posts as well, just reaaally slowly, meaning that if you follow really large accounts in a week or so you can find your feed full of older posts marked as unread.

Anyway thanks to whoever is making the hard job of building/owning an instagram scraper, I really know it can be tough.