The profile feed (/api/post/item_list) returns an empty 200 to headless
sessions but serves data headful on the same proxy IP. Run fetch_item_list
headful and dismiss the login modal that blocks mid-scroll.
Enhanced the hero section by including Instagram in the list of platforms monitored by SurfSense. Additionally, introduced a new use case for "Social sentiment mining" that details the capabilities of pulling public posts and analyzing audience reactions on Instagram.
The run-reader set gained export_run (CSV export of a stored run), but this
manifest assertion still expected only read_run/search_run. Add export_run so
the agent-door test reflects the shipped readers.
Brings the three newer verbs to parity with tiktok.scrape everywhere it was
wired: MCP tools (+ selfcheck manifest), the chat subagent prompt/description,
the playground catalog, the native docs page, and the SEO marketing page. Also
adds live e2e stages for comments, user search, and trending. Docs/FAQ now
state the real contract: profile metadata is reliable while its video list can
be withheld, and keyword video search is walled (use user search for accounts).
The Explore feed (/api/explore/item_list) is a global trending-video feed
served to anonymous sessions, and it returns the same itemStruct shape as the
other listings — so the verb reuses parse_video, the listing flow, the
TikTokVideoItem output, and the per-video billing meter wholesale. Adds a
browser-capture marker + fetch_trending, a synthetic-target orchestrator entry,
and the tiktok.trending capability, surfaced on the chat subagent.
Comments load over a signed /api/comment/list XHR that TikTok serves to
anonymous sessions once the comments panel is opened (unlike profile-video and
general-search feeds), so this is a reliable verb. Given video URLs it returns
CommentItems (text, author, likes, reply counts; replies carry repliesToId),
deduped per video, capped, and degraded to an ErrorItem for empty/withheld
videos or a bad_url ErrorItem for non-video inputs.
Generalizes the browser capture over a pluggable interaction step so the
comments flow (open panel, scroll the panel to paginate) reuses the same
warm+capture scaffolding as listing/user-search. Billed per comment on a new
TIKTOK_COMMENT meter (TIKTOK_MICROS_PER_COMMENT, matching the per-comment
market), surfaced on the chat subagent alongside tiktok.scrape/user_search.
Video/general search is login-walled for anonymous sessions, but the Users
tab (/api/search/user) returns public account records without a redirect, so
this exposes the one reliably-unblocked search path. A keyword yields
TikTokProfileItems (name, followers, bio, verification), deduped per query,
capped, and degraded to an ErrorItem when a query is empty/withheld.
Reuses the browser capture (generalized over XHR markers + extractor) and the
shared profile item shape. Billed per account on a new TIKTOK_USER meter
(TIKTOK_MICROS_PER_USER), surfaced on the chat subagent alongside tiktok.scrape.
A profile's account data (name, followers, bio, verification) lives in the
page's rehydration blob and loads over plain HTTP without a signed request,
so emit it first and always. The video listing needs a signed item_list XHR
that TikTok withholds from anonymous sessions, so it stays best-effort and
degrades to an ErrorItem. A blocked profile now yields its metadata instead
of only an ErrorItem.
Introduced new tests to validate the behavior of the Instagram scraper when discovering anonymous profiles and handling hashtag searches. The tests ensure that profile lookups succeed without requiring authentication, while hashtag searches correctly raise an error when access is blocked, enhancing the robustness of the scraper's functionality.
Enhanced the Instagram scraper to clarify the requirements for accessing user profiles and hashtags. Updated the error message for blocked access to provide detailed guidance on necessary credentials. Introduced a regex for validating Instagram usernames and refined the discovery function to handle profile queries directly, improving user experience and error handling in anonymous mode.
Enhanced the fetch_json function to immediately raise InstagramAccessBlockedError for login-gated endpoints, preventing unnecessary IP rotations. Introduced a new constant for authentication-walled paths to streamline the detection of access blocks, improving the scraper's efficiency in handling Instagram's restrictions.
Revised tests for handling login redirects to improve clarity and efficiency. The test for immediate failure on endpoint-level walls was updated to prevent unnecessary IP rotations. Additionally, new tests were added to ensure that partial results are returned when encountering blocked targets, enhancing the resilience of the scraper's batch processing.
Updated the fan_out function to allow partial results when encountering blocked targets. Instead of aborting the entire batch on a hard login wall, the function now tracks blocked statuses and raises InstagramAccessBlockedError only if all targets are blocked. This change improves the scraper's resilience and efficiency in handling Instagram's access restrictions.
Updated the fetch_json function to raise InstagramAccessBlockedError immediately upon detecting a login redirect (302 -> /accounts/login/). This change prevents unnecessary IP rotations when encountering endpoint-level access blocks, improving the efficiency of the scraper's handling of Instagram's login wall.
Introduced a new test to ensure that InstagramAccessBlockedError is properly propagated without causing deadlocks in the scraper's fan_out function. This regression test verifies that the error surfaces correctly when a blocked job is encountered, enhancing the resilience of the fetch process.
Updated the fan_out function to handle InstagramAccessBlockedError more gracefully. Instead of raising the error directly, it now puts the error into the results queue to prevent deadlocks. This change ensures that the consumer can handle access block scenarios without interrupting the processing of other jobs.
Added tests to handle scenarios where a 200 status response is redirected to a login page, ensuring proper rotation of IPs and raising errors when persistent login redirects occur. Updated the _FakeSession class to support login wall detection.
Added detection for Instagram's soft login wall, which returns a 200 status with login HTML. Implemented a new function to identify login redirects and adjusted the fetch logic to treat these cases similarly to 401/403 responses.
