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Nerixyz / instagram_mqtt

Realtime and Push Notification (FBNS) support for the instagram-private-api
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Legal question #24

Open amirpdlll opened 4 years ago

amirpdlll commented 4 years ago

Hello , Using libraries such as this library that are making reverse engineering on instagram is legal ? can we make applications for our customers using these libraries or not ?

thanks

Androz2091 commented 4 years ago

No, that's not allowed by Instagram. A similar repository was taken down via a DMCA request by Facebook.

Some links for more informations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22209892 https://github.com/dilame/instagram-private-api/issues/1066 https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/01/2020-01-22-facebook.md

amirpdlll commented 4 years ago

No, that's not allowed by Instagram. A similar repository was taken down via a DMCA request by Facebook.

Some links for more informations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22209892 dilame/instagram-private-api#1066 https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/01/2020-01-22-facebook.md

Oh thank you , so why the have blocked mgp25 instagram library but not libraries such as dilame/instagram-prive-library ?

Androz2091 commented 4 years ago

🤷‍♂ They can't block everything, and the mgp25's library was more known. I think that's why

amirpdlll commented 4 years ago

🤷‍♂ They can't block everything, and the mgp25's library was more known. I think that's why

Thank you , so I won't use libraries such as that to respect instagram rules

thank you

sergeykomlev commented 4 years ago

🤷‍♂ They can't block everything, and the mgp25's library was more known. I think that's why

Thank you , so I won't use libraries such as that to respect instagram rules

thank you

You can try official Instagram Basic Display API .

That’s not very hard to get access to API, if you don’t do any illegal.

Complete request for permissions, attach screenshots and test login data. If all will be ok, Facebook will approve your app.

Nerixyz commented 4 years ago

@sergeykomlev The basic display API is as the name suggests basic, so if you want to do anything beyond getting post and/or user info, you either need to register a new app at Facebook (and probably be a business partner) or you reverse engineer your own library.

And that's especially true for anything realtime related (which is what this repository is about).