Phewwww, finally pushed the last commit, and this will be my last devlog before the ship (and the last one for Stardance). Anyway, I would like to summarize what happened over the past months. To start, I was very excited to work on this project and did a quick proof of concept at the start, though I didn’t think much of it and didn’t establish a solid pipeline. I just realized that when I revisited the project again, this time I focused mostly on the pipeline, and sadly that (the pipeline that is used to intercept Instagram requests, i.e.) would be internal for most of the duration of the project since Meta would likely patch the method I am using (it requires a rooted device and is fairly difficult as well as risky too, so it might be good overall). Going forward, for what I have done now, instead of making a complete profile sign-in (which was practically impossible in the time I have left), I just validated all the secret extraction from the Android device against the Meta endpoints, so I can at least guarantee that I can generate all the nonce and cryptographic signatures required by the Instagram backend. Currently, the problem I am running into is the client being out of date (even though its the latest blocks and client version)…? Anway this seems to be a temporary issue since instagram seems to be overhauling many things, but the point is that making a client right now was not my end goal, it was to make a pipeline I can use repideatly to keep up this project and to verify if I can extract what Meta need from the android device and I seem to have achieved both of them and can conveniently display them to you folks, hence the ship [to see your own instagram params, just install Aetherion, go to preview demo and click saved secrets and it will show you everything, though the keys can be rotated, is was still very difficult none the less]. Anyway, I seem to have run headfirst into nearly all the issues that currently plague subzeroid/instagrapi on GitHub, so I must be doing something right… Anyway, SHIP INBOUND!!!
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