Instagram Scraping Tool Broken by Platform-Side Anti-Bot Redirects
Users of a command-line media downloader are unable to fetch Instagram posts because the platform now redirects scraping requests to the home page, triggering extraction failures. The issue affects multiple operating systems and only impacts post downloads, while other content types like highlights still work. It highlights the fragility of tools that depend on reverse-engineering a platform's undocumented behavior.
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