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Instagram also shut down their public api last year and are deprecating the graph api in a week. (5 Nov) https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/

The new api has no access to consumer (non-Business or non-Creator) instagram accounts.

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If Facebook offers a public API, people will complain that Facebook hasn't learned their lesson from Cambridge analytica. If they don't, then they're accused of having a walled garden. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

I thought Cambridge Analytica had access to far more data than was available on the public API which is what made it so controversial?

Yes, that was precisely the issue.

Who started with this whole facebook = "Damned if you do, damned if you don't". Been seeing this all over the place. Is it just a catchy phrase or some higher up in the tech world said it and everyone is parroting it?

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CA had access to information they never should've had. Just like phone apps having access to a Contacts API that they never should have that kind of access to.

Having a tightly managed API would be just fine.

Yup, I recently tweeted about this. Their previous API was much more pleasant to work with. IMO a 'personal use only' account type with a limited data scope would be a great option to have. Thus far, I can't get my 'app' authorized for personal use despite it being only for a page on my blog. I've given up trying to use their API. I'd like to just scrape my photos now but I'm not sure if even that's a possibility.

https://twitter.com/jonlprd/status/1184547466244448257

Where does it say they’re deprecating the graph API on Nov 5?

Is it feasible to scrape the website?

Not anymore.

> The new api has no access to consumer (non-Business or non-Creator) instagram accounts.

Good.

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