[Juan13]

Hey all,

First post here been lurking for a while just taking in some of the solid stuff people share. I'm currently diving deeper into osint, mostly around metadata extraction and profiling from social media content.
As a small contribution, here's a quick Python script I wrote to automate exif data extraction using exiftol it processes all image files in a folder and saves the metadata in a clean json

Script
import os
import json
import subprocess

def extract_exif_from_folder(folder_path, output_json):
    data = {}
    for filename in os.listdir(folder_path):
        if filename.lower().endswith((".jpg", ".jpeg", ".png")):
            filepath = os.path.join(folder_path, filename)
            try:
                result = subprocess.run(
                    ["exiftool", "-json", filepath],
                    stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                    stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                    text=True
                )
                if result.stdout:
                    exif_data = json.loads(result.stdout)[0]
                    data[filename] = exif_data
            except Exception as e:
                print(f"[!] Error reading {filename}: {e}")
    with open(output_json, "w") as f:
        json.dump(data, f, indent=4)
    print(f"[+] Metadata written to {output_json}")

extract_exif_from_folder("images", "output_exif.json")

now onto a quick question:
I'm running some passive scraping on public Instagram profiles without logging in — using instaloader
plus spoofed headers. Even with proxy rotation (residential and datacenter) and randomized delays I’m still getting hit with 429s after a short burst.
Anyone here got a more solid method for avoiding those blocks without relying on IG accounts or session cookies?
Not here to beg or leech — just throwing in a small tool and hoping to trade some ideas.
Might share some TikTok correlation stuff later if anyone’s into that.

Juan13