Do you frequently need verification steps like email confirmation, captchas, or phone validation, or do your scrapers keep getting blocked? You’re not alone, so don’t worry! Using subpar proxies or making excessive API calls are just two of the many causes of these problems.

But don’t worry! This post will teach you how to maintain your scrapers’ smooth operation and efficiency. By following our easy steps, you can greatly expand the volume of API calls your scrapers can make while maintaining the functionality and activity of your accounts. Let’s optimize your scrapers so they may perform at their best without any more hassles or interruptions!

Preparation: Warming Your Accounts Up

Following these guidelines is essential to effectively warm up your scrapers after you’ve added them to the SOCIAL PROFILES view:

1. Let 24 hours pass: After adding the accounts, stop and give them a full day to rest before proceeding to the following stages.

2. Set up API Limits and Delays: It’s crucial to configure the API Limits and Delays in your scrapers’ Advanced Profile Settings before moving the accounts from STOPPED to VALID state. The number of API calls your scrapers can make in a given hour and day is controlled by these variables. See this guide to find out more about these choices.

Because every account has different constraints on how many API calls it can make in a given amount of time, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all guideline for these parameters. Experimenting with various API Limits and Delays is crucial to determining the optimal settings for your accounts.

Three distinct options that we examined generally function well for newly formed accounts. The following are these settings:

Enable API Limits option 1: 

Enable API Limits option 2: 

Delays: 

Gradually Increasing API calls for Scraper Accounts
The operation of scraper accounts depends heavily on API requests. Effectively configuring these accounts’ API call behavior is crucial to ensuring their seamless operation. This is how it operates:

• Begin with Fewer API Calls: The account is initially set up to make a restricted number of API calls. By taking this conservative approach, Instagram’s spam detection technology is less likely to discover any unexpected spikes in activity.
• Gradual Increase Over Time: The quantity of API calls steadily rises as the days and hours go by. The scraping accounts will warm up steadily thanks to this gradual expansion. They begin to increase activity and access without overburdening Instagram’s systems.
• Reaching the Target Number of API Calls: Until the account meets a pre-established threshold for API calls, the increase is made gradually. In order to achieve the ideal balance between effective data extraction and preventing account detection, this goal number was carefully selected.

We can successfully “warm up” the scraper accounts by putting this method of steady increase into practice. This entails getting them ready to manage additional API requests in the future without raising any red flags with Instagram’s algorithms. This method of warming up the accounts is a wise and careful move that will guarantee your scraper accounts last longer and be more productive.

NOTE: Be aware that your scrapers may encounter delays more frequently when your primary accounts execute more tasks. In these situations, adding more scrapers is preferable than raising API Limits and Delays because the latter may put undue load on your scrapers and reduce their longevity. Maintaining your scrapers for as long as feasible is crucial, particularly when determining the ideal API Limits and Delays for your configuration.

3. Other Useful Settings:

• Partial API Emulation: Partial API emulation requires fewer API calls than full API calls, thus it’s something to think about. Although it could lead to more verifications, it typically works better. We suggest testing it on some of your scrapers to observe the results.
• Use the API to Perform Random Actions: Enable this function to let your account like, follow, and unfollow posts at random. By mimicking human behavior and making your account appear like a normal person, Instagram is less likely to flag it as spam. Additionally, it can be used to publish regular postings and tales.
• Delay for Proxy Issues: If your proxies fail and your scrapers show a VALID status, you can start getting “no more results found” problems for your primary accounts. You may think that there is an issue with your primary accounts since the proxies that the scrapers use are unavailable. To avoid this confusion, we suggest choosing the “Delay the account while the proxy is down” option.

Getting to the Finish Line: Optimizing Your Accounts

Maximizing the lifespan of your scraper accounts is the main goal. But as time passes, these scrapers can run into issues with verification, including captchas, phone validation, or email verification. It might take a lot of time and be difficult to regularly monitor when these verifications are handled manually.

It is crucial to configure the program to manage verifications automatically to streamline the procedure.To do this, use the options below: