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Degradation of danger, or impotence of IT specialists of the world in front of Mark Zuckerberg's company "META" #1647

Open Relobum opened 2 years ago

Relobum commented 2 years ago

In my subjective opinion, there is a tendency for the degradation of IT specialists. I would like to bring this issue up for public discussion. Let me take a situation that touched me personally. I work as an analyst. Users mark the company's account in stories, on the IG social network, and I need the following toolkit for a more complete collection of statistics:

  1. Is it possible for a third party service to track mentions when users tag our account in stories?
  2. Collection of these mentions, the ability to view them in retrospect, after the fact.
  3. Saving to the service database: a. Screenshots/video stories of users who tagged our account; b. their nicknames; c. Their number of followers. Communicated with support services of more than 50 services providing analytics in social networks. IG networks. I get answers to the above questions in different variations, but with the same meaning: “Instagram severely limits the data that it provides to third-party sites. In our service, it is purely technically impossible to implement the functionality that you require. Allegedly, the problem lies in "restrictions in the Instagram API". The quintessence of nonsense is that Facebook and Instagram have an incredible amount of absolutely stupid bugs that have not been fixed for years. 👆 From this we can make a logical conclusion that the developers at META are people of low qualification and obviously there are not enough stars from the sky. And with all this, none of the world's IT specialists can compete with Zuckerberg's developers and force the same Instagram API to provide the necessary statistical data? I do not fully believe in this, but the situation looks exactly like this. I would like to ask the IT community why the implementation of such a simple functionality makes third-party developers powerless? Is it the degradation of the IT-specialist market or the giant companies simply bought all the worthy developers into their corporations?
Nerixyz commented 2 years ago
  1. Is it possible for a third party service to track mentions when users tag our account in stories?

I'm pretty sure you get a direct message when someone tags you in a story, but there's no request (to my knowledge) that just returns the stories you were tagged in. The public api (basic display api) can't see direct messages, but this private api (although outdated) can.

2. Collection of these mentions, the ability to view them in retrospect, after the fact.

You need to save them in some way, since instagram doesn't really do that. You can see the past DMs where it says "You've beed tagged" but you can't see the story.

3. Screenshots/video stories of users who tagged our account;

Once you know the story you can easily extract the video/image.

3. their nicknames;

Same here.

3. Their number of followers.

If you have the story, you can query their profile.

3. 👆 From this we can make a logical conclusion that the developers at META are people of low qualification and obviously there are not enough stars from the sky. And with all this, none of the world's IT specialists can compete with Zuckerberg's developers and force the same Instagram API to provide the necessary statistical data?

I (personally) don't think that's the conclusion you should draw from this. I think it's more likely that Instagram/Meta doesn't want to expose such information. It's commonly known that you get easily rate-limited for doing basic things even just in the app. Thus I don't think Instagram wants to expose this information.

3. necessary statistical data

That's probably where you're disagreeing with meta's interpretation of "necessary".

Relobum commented 2 years ago

Thank you very much for the information. Do you happen to know what software or service could help us and provide the necessary functionality? I will be very grateful to you :)

Nerixyz commented 2 years ago

Do you happen to know what software or service could help us and provide the necessary functionality?

I don't know any service since I don't use them. Maybe someone else knows any.

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Relobum commented 1 year ago

Thank you all for your answers.

Relobum commented 1 year ago

I know my pitch may seem a bit aggressive and I apologize for that. I just really wanted to know if there was a workable way in the current software market.

By the way, in more than half a year I still haven't found a solution. Too bad, but it looks like I will never be able to solve the problem :(