Ask HN: How does instagress get permission

1 points by wootez 10y ago ↗ HN

Instagram requires users to have a proper business case in order to use their API to like/follow people. Instagram says you shouldn't use this to automate likes and follows. However, instagress seems to sell automated likes and follows - how does this happen? Is instagress secretly a facebook company?

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MarkCole 10y ago ↗

Very unlikely that it's a facebook company, the money they're making is nothing at the scale of facebook. It's more likely they don't have access to the official API, they've just reverse engineered the instagram iphone/android/web app and are using that to like/follow people.