I built a small checker to examine information visible on public Instagram profiles. It is not a way to view private accounts or content, and the project’s specific inputs, outputs, data source, access method, and reliability are not established here. Those details matter: a tool’s label alone cannot show what it checks or how well it works.
What this checker is—and what the title does not establish
OSINT means gathering and assessing information from sources that are publicly available. In this project’s case, the stated scope is narrow: a small checker for information visible on public Instagram profiles. That description does not establish which profile details it examines, what it returns, whether it requires sign-in, or whether it uses an official API, another access method, or a combination.
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No tested cases, accuracy measurements, or results are established. A reader should therefore treat this as a project description, not evidence that the checker is complete, reliable, or suitable for a particular investigation. To evaluate it, the project needs to document its inputs and outputs, data source, account types tested, access method, limitations, and actual test results.
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What Meta’s official Instagram API can access
Meta’s Instagram API documentation describes the Facebook Login API for Instagram professional accounts—Businesses and Creators—with a linked Facebook Page. Meta explicitly says this API cannot access consumer Instagram accounts. Its documented capabilities include managing a professional presence, retrieving and publishing media, managing and replying to comments, identifying media that mentions an account, finding hashtagged media, and accessing basic metadata and metrics about other professional accounts.
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Those capabilities do not make the API a general-purpose lookup service for any public Instagram profile. Nor do they establish that this checker uses the API. The project’s own data source and access method need to be stated separately; the API’s documented scope cannot be used to infer how the checker works.
Public visibility is not permission to bypass privacy
Meta’s Safety Center encourages people to consider what they share and who can see it, and describes public information as information people choose to make public. A checker described as examining public profiles should be limited to information visible to it under the platform’s access rules. It should not be presented as a way to defeat privacy settings, access private-account content, or recover information that is unavailable to the viewer.
Public visibility can also depend on platform availability and access limits. A checker should make those boundaries clear rather than implying that a profile inspection is complete or that inaccessible information can be retrieved.
Privacy controls for Instagram users
Meta provides tools for people to access, manage, download, or delete information they have provided. Instagram’s Activity Center includes content a person commented on, shared, or sent, according to Meta’s Privacy Center. These are user-facing account controls; their existence does not establish what this checker collects, processes, or stores. Those practices should be documented by the project itself.
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