No Reliable Server-Side Way to Fetch Public Instagram/Facebook Post Metadata
Backend developers cannot obtain caption, author and thumbnail for public social post URLs without login walls, per-user OAuth, or heavy headless browsers. Oembed returns unusable data and datacenter IPs are redirected to login.
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