Reverse-Engineering-a-Private-API-in-a-Major-Social-Application
Project status: UnknownI reverse-engineered the proprietary phone number lookup feature of a popular social media application with more than 1 billion downloads. The goal was to understand and replicate the underlying API call that the app uses to resolve phone numbers to user profiles-a process that happens without a public-facing API.
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- github.com/khushamasgharr/reverse-engineering-a-private-api-in-a-major-social-application
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I reverse-engineered the proprietary phone number lookup feature of a popular social media application with more than 1 billion downloads. The goal was to understand and replicate the underlying API call that the app uses to resolve phone numbers to user profiles-a process that happens without a public-facing API.
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- Open repository · github.comgithub.com/khushamasgharr/reverse-engineering-a-private-api-in-a-major-social-application