How one team scrapes 120 IG accounts twice a day

A team we work with pulls posts and stories from a large pool of Instagram accounts on a schedule, and they walked us through how it's set up on our infra.

What they're doing
Every 12 hours they run through 120 accounts.
One run gives them 700+ posts and around 350 stories.
They hit the private APIs /api/v1/feed/user/ and /api/v1/feed/reels_media/, and pull images from IG-CDN in a separate stream. Bandwidth lands somewhere in the 500-800 MB range per run, most of that is images.

Why they split the pool into 28 session-ids
Our packages let you spin up a bunch of unique sticky sessions under one billing account. They grabbed 28 - one per warmup IG account they run.

Here's what that buys them:
- Each warmup goes out from its own "cell". IG sees 28 separate mobile users instead of one bouncing across the country. A 30-minute sticky window is long enough to finish a chunk of requests on one IP, but short enough that IG can't really build a behavioral profile off it.

- When one exit-IP catches a rate-limit, it's just that warmup that's affected — the other 27 keep going. They turned that into a failover: targets from the dead account get reassigned to another one with a fresh IP.

- Scaling stays boring. When they want to add 50 more accounts, they ask for 50 more session-ids. Nothing changes in the code.

Things worth stealing from their setup
One account, one sticky session for its whole life. Feed different IPs into a single logical thread and IG sees the mismatch, drops the session.

Match sticky window length to your working cycle. Shorter than the cycle and it snaps mid-work. Much longer and behavioral patterns start showing up. 30 minutes worked for them, but for someone else it might be 15 or 60.

Images from IG-CDN have to go through the same exit-IP as the API. IG-CDN checks who opened the feed in the first place - different IP and you're getting a 403.

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Passed Imperva + DataDome on a live double-stacked target with our residential proxy

Update for anyone stuck on Imperva or DataDome walls.

We pointed our residential proxy pool at one of the biggest TCG and collectibles stores in the US. That target stacks both systems on top of each other, Imperva with the reese84 sensor and an hCaptcha interstitial, and DataDome on the data responses. Full catalog with live prices came out clean into CSV.

A few things from the run that might save you time. IP reputation was not the thing that blocked us, every session behaved the same, so rotating harder changes nothing. What decides pass or fail is the browser fingerprint and the current mode of the site. The setup that works runs in two stages. A real Firefox based stealth browser passes both layers once and mints the cookies, then a lightweight HTTP client replays those cookies over the same sticky IP for the bulk pulls.

The part most people miss is the fingerprint match on the fast client. Mint the session with Firefox, replay as Firefox. Put a Chrome fingerprint on that second stage and DataDome hands you a 403 right away, because it ties the cookie to the TLS fingerprint.

Here is where the proxy actually matters. The stealth browser only passes stage one quietly when the IP behind it looks like a real home connection with clean history. Cheap datacenter or recycled residential IPs get scored as suspicious before the browser even finishes loading, and then you sit on the captcha no matter how good your automation is. A proper residential pool with real ISP addresses and a sticky session that does not rotate under you is the difference between a silent pass and an endless hCaptcha loop. That is the part you cannot script your way around.

Our residential proxy is what gets stage one through quietly while the site is in scoring mode, and the sticky IP holds long enough to finish the batch. US and other geos, sticky sessions that run on HTTP and SOCKS5.

What we offer:

- Residential Turbo - no port blocking, UDP open by default:
https://geekproxy.io/residential-proxy/turbo

- Residential Flex - strict geo-filtering, UDP available upon request:
https://geekproxy.io/residential-proxy/flex

- Mobile proxies
https://geekproxy.io/mobile-proxy

RESIDENTIAL TURBO PROXY

What that actually unlocks:

• Mail / SMTP. Ports 25, 465, 587 work, so email tooling and warmup run over residential IPs
• UDP. Built in on the SOCKS5 port, for tools and protocols that need UDP, not just TCP.
• Gaming and custom apps. Anything on a non-standard port connects, no "this port is blocked" surprise.
• Full destination access

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We just opened the mobile pool on Geekproxy. Datacenter, IPv4 and residentials have been running for a while — mobile is now live on the same dashboard and billing.

What you get

Real carrier-issued mobile IPs across 190 countries. I ran a 500-request stress test on the pool before launch — 97.5% success rate, 15 different carriers picked up in a single sticky session (Verizon, Vodafone Qatar, Orange, Bharti Airtel, Mobily, Zain, Telkom SA, Ooredoo, Grameenphone, Fastweb and others), 100% of IPs flagged mobile=true on ip-api. Headers are fully clean — no X-Forwarded-For, no Via — elite anonymity.

Good fit for: ad verification, mobile-only flow scraping, account ferming where you need a carrier IP that doesn't read as residential or DC, antidetect work, sneaker tasks, social automation.

Tech

HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, plus UDP(by request). UDP on mobile is rare — most mobile proxy providers ship TCP only.
Sticky sessions up to 120 minutes. 2000 concurrent threads on one account.
Country and city targeting across the 190 countries.
Default destination ports: 80, 443, 53, 853, 5060, 5228, 8080, 8090, 8443. Restricted ports like SMTP, SSH, RDP can be opened on request with a use-case.

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