When I started collecting at , a simple sequential loop quickly became the bottleneck. Even if each request only takes a fraction of a second, hundreds or thousands of API calls add up. The solution wasn't making each request faster—it was making many requests at the same time.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/ashk_asef_b70c07a3f73a15e/fetching-instagram-data-concurrently-in-python-with-hikerapi-4m5a)