I built a Feeld likes scanner - They're definitely hiding likes for non majestic users
As someone with a background in tech/coding, I figured I'd have a crack at the feeld API. What else should I be using my enterprise codex license for? 😅
I think we all had the suspicion that Feeld hides likes from your discovery feed. Though my code doesn't 100% prove it, it's as near as dammit confirmed it.
Massive kudos to the niewiemczego repo on github, which allowed me to get started on this. There was also a reddit user called ghost something or other, who was on the subreddit for a short while before disappearing - he made a web gui with some extra features that gave me some ideas.
Unfortunately, Feeld have locked down the API since then, so it's very difficult to get anything useful. I wouldn't really advise doing this as you'll probably get your account banned. I won't be running it again. I've done this purely for fun, I just like the challenge and building something cool. I'm not looking for weaknesses, vulnerabilities and I'm not making any money or gain.
Background:
- Male, ~40 years old, London. Looking for women, MF, FF. Between the ages 28-42
- Non majestic. I have 66 likes, obviously hidden.
Of those 66, the Feeld API will report back 20 profile IDs. I got one like whilst testing this tool, so I now have 21 profile IDs stored.
I built a scanner which moves my location to 47x 2km radiuses around London, so roughly within zone 3/4 ish. All overlap, so there are no location gaps. At each location, it will change the discovery age range to 1-2 years, load all the profiles, then move onto the next age ranges. Then finally moves location. I'm using 18-50 as I want to make sure as many profiles are scanned as possible.
The Loop:
- Set location to first 2km radius
- Set age range 18–19
- Load profiles
- Check for matched profile ID
- Set age range 19–20
- Load profiles
- Check for matched profile ID
- ...[repeat for all age brackets up to 50]
- Set location to next 2km radius
- ...[repeat for all locations]
I had to keep my search as specific as possible so I didn't go above the limit of 200 profiles the API will return given a unique search.
It's true that of those 21 likes that have profile IDs, they could have been in London temporarily, but I doubt all of them would be. They could also be over 50 - which also seems unlikely.
So of ~13.5k profiles scanned, using ~2k web requests..
Do you want to know how many of the profiles, that already liked me, appeared in discovery?.... Zero.