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Discussion on: Scraping an Instagram location tag with instascrape

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ImTheDeveloper

Nice to see it wasn't anything catastrophic 👍 I'll be likely giving this a go to monitor some insta accounts for new posts and publishing them via my telegram bot into a chat. I've been considering running through lumintai.io as I do with twitter and YouTube which has served well to proxy from multiple locations so the traffic on a single IP doesn't stack up I'll get a tutorial up on Dev if it works out 👍

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Chris Greening

Awesome! Would love to see that tutorial, I'll keep an eye out. I wrote a script a couple months ago that rotates free anonymous proxies but kept getting hit with 403's, probably because the IP's are blacklisted since everyone else is using them lol. Haven't done too much more research into proxies since I haven't really needed it yet but I plan future versions of instascrape to have support for it; it's definitely a vital tool for any large scale scraping