I built a small Instagram profile monitoring tool that lets me track public accounts, their recent posts, and basic engagement data over time. For the first version, I decided to build the Instagram scraper myself. It was pretty straightforward: make requests, find the data I needed, parse it, and save it to my database. And it worked. Until Instagram changed things. Again. Instagram seems to regularly change how their web application is structured and how data is exposed. When that happens, parts of a scraper can suddenly stop working even though nothing changed on my side. So I fixed it. Then a while later, something else changed. I fixed that too. Eventually I got tired of spending my time maintaining something that wasn't actually the project I wanted to build. I could have written

  • 情报分类：项目价值、技术价值
  • 命中依据：爬虫项目实现与平台变更应对经验
  • 来源：Reddit · SideProject
  • 原作者：/u/Both-Veterinarian-87 https://www.reddit.com/user/Both-Veterinarian-87
  • 发布时间：2026/9/10 06:15:24