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You can track changes someone makes to their Instagram account

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  while True:
    time.sleep(300)
    # Check to see if something has changed, log it

The title makes it sound like there's something here specific to Instagram, not a simple repetitive web scraper. Is there a reason why this is notable?

A lot of it seems just likely for intel reasons. A lot of OSINT/CTI scripts simply are glorified scripts that just sleep for X amount of time and then recheck for any changes and then alert if change is detected.

I think you could really take this script to the next level by changing it to send alerts to Slack channels via their API, to Telegram, to Discord channels, or if it could send an email alert using the Gmail smtp.

> You must login to your Instagram account in order to properly scrape someone else's Instagram account.

Sounds like a great way to speedrun getting your own account permabanned

I hope Instagram dies and a Fediverse alternative takes over. Pleeeeaaase let me decide how I get user updates from your platform!

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