I witnessed the death of two great projects too: Bibliogram and Barinsta, I mentioned before that Bibliogram’s death was the reason to create Proxigram. The way Proxigram works is that it scrapes the data off others Instagram viewers online, it has multiple providers and more will be added in the future.

@weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works Asked the following:

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@weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works: So this’ll make use of other Instagram viewers instead of directly going to Instagram itself?

@ThePenguinDev@lemmy.world: Basically, but maybe in the future Instagram support is added, just I didn’t want it to make it dependable on scraping Instagram since they are more likely to block the instance. If Instagram support is added in the future, since a random provider is selected every time, is less likely to get blocked by Instagram.

In that case, why not just use Pixelfed?

Me too, just give me the content! I don’t want to login. But let’s hope it can last long as much as it can.

@RomTy @ThePenguinDev if Meta can shut it down, it will. Everything good is illegal.

@RomTy @ThePenguinDev

This is great! You don’t know how happy this makes me! For things like this is why I wanted so much to have an API instead of just generating the HTML.

disclaimer I don’t really know what I’m doing, this is more of a yolo I wanna look into Android app development kinda thing.

Don’t worry, I don’t know what I’m doing either, the thing is learn while doing it. :D

Sometimes you need to see its contents (e.g. store listing prices only on IG) and don’t want to make a Meta account for obvious reasons. Plus it skips all the tracking bs.