docs: point arc298/instagram-scraper anchors at PyPI (GitHub repo removed)#4
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…oved) The two [arc298/instagram-scraper](github.com/arc298/…) hyperlinks in this landing README both 404 — the GitHub repo was taken down. The PyPI package (pypi.org/project/instagram-scraper/) is the only stable link now. Anchor text stays 'arc298/instagram-scraper' (that's what search- engine visitors are looking for) but the href now resolves to a page that describes the same abandoned tool.
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Follow-up to the initial commit on this PR. PyPI's project/instagram-scraper page returns a Cloudflare bot-challenge interstitial (title 'Client Challenge') that curl reads as a plain 200 — the actual package doesn't exist. Both the GitHub repo AND the PyPI package have been removed. New target: Wayback Machine snapshot from 2022-11-16 — verified returns real HTML with 200. Wayback URLs are stable long-term regardless of what happens upstream.
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What
The two `arc298/instagram-scraper` hyperlinks in the landing README both 404 — the GitHub repo was taken down. Any dev clicking through from this repo lands on a missing page.
Fix
Swap the href on both hyperlinks to `https://pypi.org/project/instagram-scraper/\` (verified 200). Anchor text stays `arc298/instagram-scraper` — that's what search-engine visitors type — but the target is now a page that actually resolves and still describes the same abandoned tool. The "sporadically maintained for years" prose framing still holds; PyPI's release history confirms it.
Discovered via
Ahrefs audit on socialapis.io flagged the same broken URL in a blog post. Sweeping the SocialAPIsHub org for the same string found it here + on socialapis-python (separate PR for that one).
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