I'm building (a managed Instagram REST API —
they run the account pool, proxies and sessions). My whole multi-step "collect" stage
turned into a single request:
python
import requests
r = requests.get(
"https://api.hikerapi.com/v1/media/by/code",
params={"code": "SHORTCODE"},
headers={"x-access-key": "YOUR_KEY"},
)
media = r.json()
# one response → author, metrics, pk, AND a direct video_url
print(media["video_url"], media["like_count"])
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