instagram-api-workbench
Mobile app API research, evidence, and the REA web application
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GITHUB · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 12 upvotes (top 85%)
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Partial The web app and research workspace are vibe-codeable. The core value, mapping Instagram's private mobile API through traffic analysis, requires reverse-engineering skill, fragile request signing, and ongoing maintenance as the API changes.
What it would actually take: The stack is a web app (for example Next.js or Python with a database) for storing captured traffic, evidence, and endpoint documentation. The hard part is intercepting and decoding the mobile app's requests, including signatures and tokens, using tools like mitmproxy, Frida, and a decompiler. Doing this requires reverse-engineering experience, and the result is brittle and may conflict with platform terms.
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Launched 357 days after the earliest competitor.
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