Mastodawn

def extract_ig_headers(input_string):
    start = input_string.find("{")
    end = input_string.rfind("}")
    start_trimmed = input_string[start:end + 1]
    end = start_trimmed.rfind("}\" 36")

    processed_esc = start_trimmed[0:end + 1]

    processed_unesc = processed_esc.encode("utf-8").decode("unicode_escape")
    outer = json.loads(processed_unesc)
    headers = json.loads(outer["headers"])


    return {
        "bearer_token": headers["IG-Set-Authorization"],
        "www_claim": headers["x-ig-set-www-claim"],
        "ds_user_id": headers["ig-set-ig-u-ds-user-id"]
    }

who needs regex when you .find?

in fairness to me, what im parsing is also fucked.