Hi there,
I'm validating the idea of a product that gives insights on Instagram business accounts. Something like Ninjalitics (https://www.ninjalitics.com/) or Socialblade (https://socialblade.com/). My assumption is that there is market for multiple products like that even though some of them are already popular.
Looking at the official Graph Api there's a limit of 200 requests per hour, which is nothing if you want to provide a service like that.
I assume these platforms mentioned above do web scraping to retrieve such an amount of data, what do you think?
Has anyone looked into a product like that? A few more questions:
Thank you!
It seems that this limit is enforced per user account (not yours), so you might be able to scale pretty comfortably (about 3 requests per minute for each user) and validate the idea/generate some revenue.
As a more long term solution, these guys apparently use a similar approach to your #2: https://tint.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002900874-Instagram-Rate-Limits
Thank you @omneity!