How instagrapi found requests of instagram?

[bondobrus]

Hello, I'm trying to understand some backend of instagram so I can edit other private mobile api app, however I don't know really how while creating this liblary the authors did found requests for specific stuff? For eaxmple how do we get request that send a message to specific thread? I can see some request going on on mitmrproxy but the body is encrypted. How I can decode it? Please any information will be useful for me. Thank you very much 🙏

[IqBroly]

@bondobrus I am also trying to find this by intercepting the mobile instagram app's requests to the server. I am having trouble catching the requests probably it's using a different protocol than https

[edvinmolla]

most likely you're just not bypassing their SSL. that's the trickiest part.

[timmsGithub]

Hey! You can try and start using Charles Proxy and use the Instagraqm website first. Charles will show you all requests of your actions on the Instagram website.
It will be a long way to get to your first successfull request but you can do it! Just keep in mind that you need to bypass CloudFlare (csrfToken) if you want to use the graphgl api. You should start with a website without login to understand the requests.

Good luck!