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baptx / instagram-api_direct_messages_backup.js
Last active April 29, 2024 07:29
Instagram API: view and backup direct messages from a web browser
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Instagram API: view and backup direct messages from a web browser
Since April 2020, Instagram has a web version to send and read direct messages so my Instagram scripts are not longer needed and I would not recommend using them unless you really need it, to avoid being banned
(never happened to me with Instagram but WhatsApp is owned by Facebook also and they did it to users registering from an unofficial app like yowsup: https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup/commit/88b8ad9581fa22dac330ee3a05fec4e485dfa634#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5)
1) Log in on Instagram web version and go to your profile page
(the home page will not work because it loads data when scrolling down and the direct messages will be displayed at the bottom of the page)
2) Modify HTTP headers with a browser addon like Header Editor (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/header-editor/)
@eddiekaiger
eddiekaiger / click.m
Last active April 30, 2024 15:19
Programmatically move/click mouse on macOS
// Found on: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2008051406323031
// File:
// click.m
//
// Compile with:
// gcc -o click click.m -framework ApplicationServices -framework Foundation
//
// Usage:
// ./click -x pixels -y pixels
@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active January 13, 2024 17:27
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

Advertising

Models Examples
Display ads Yahoo!
Search ads Google
@guenter
guenter / move_to_rds.rb
Created November 11, 2010 02:14
A quick and dirty script to move a database into Amazon RDS (or any other database). Can transfer part of the data beforehand.
require 'fileutils'
start_time = Time.now
SOURCE_DB = {
:name => 'db_name',
:user => 'db_user',
:password => 'db_pass',
:host => 'localhost'