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I'm willing to bet the instagram app already signs their api requests to make sure they're coming from the app. Third party apps are reverse engineering that. If you try to send a request without those headers, it'll very likely give you a 4xx code.


The DMCA already has provisions that say reverse engineering for interoperability is fair game.


You can reverse engineer it all you want, the issue is when you publish something that interacts with a remote resource in a way that the owner of that resource did not allow you to.




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