Agreed. One of the things (among many) that convinced me of IG/FB's hostility toward developers – and users – was when they stopped providing basic user informa

Agreed. One of the things (among many) that convinced me of IG/FB's hostility toward developers – and users – was when they stopped providing basic user information in their official "Instagram Basic Display" API, which according to their docs "allows users of your app to get basic profile information, photos, and videos". This is literally the full list of fields you can get for a user's profile: account_type, id, media_count, username Can you get the user's name? Nope. Bio? Nope. Follower count? Nope. Website? Nope. Pretty close to nothing. This is all publicly visible information by the way (so no, it isn't a matter of protecting privacy), and I'm not even talking about getting it for users who are followers/followed by the person who authorized the app; you can't even get the authenticated user's own info. It's absolutely ridiculous, and any attempts to fetch that info from the website via automated means gets severely throttled or shut down almost instantly. I will never build anything else that even remotely relies on an existing social network for an important function.