reliability Guides

API clients fail in production for one of two reasons: they ignore rate limits, or they retry the wrong things. This guide is the playbook we give every integrator of getsocialapi.com — it generalizes to any cursor-paginated API.

Every few months another open-source Instagram scraper archive goes read-only. The READMEs all end the same way: "blocked", "login required", "risk of account ban". The failure isn't the code — it's the architecture. This post is about the difference.