From Termux to a Freestyle VM: My Osintgram and HikerAPI Experiment

From Termux to a Freestyle VM: My Osintgram and HikerAPI Experiment After experimenting with Osintgram directly in Termux, I wanted to see how the same project behaved inside a Linux environment running through a Freestyle VM. The idea was not simply to reproduce the installation. I wanted to understand whether moving the project into the VM would make the HikerAPI troubleshooting any clearer. Why use a VM? Termux is capable of running many command-line tools directly on Android, but a VM provides a more conventional Linux environment. I connected to the Freestyle VM from Termux and worked with Osintgram from there. The project could start, but the API side still required investigation. The dependency confusion One of the first things I noticed was that there were multiple API-related components involved. I initially looked at the installed "hikerapi" package and its "Client" class. That alone wasn't enough to explain what Osintgram was doing. So I switched from inspecting only the Python environment to inspecting the project's source code. The HikerAPI-related code pointed me toward: src/hikercli.py This was much more informative because it showed where the client was being configured and how the access token entered the application. Checking the installed library I also checked the installed HikerAPI package rather than assuming I had the expected version. For example: python3 -m pip show hikerapi This let me verify the package that was actually installed in the VM. The important point here is that checking a package version and understanding how the application uses that package are two different troubleshooting steps. Separating authentication from Osintgram I found it useful to test the API independently instead of using Osintgram as the only diagnostic tool. For example: import requests headers = { "x-access-key": "YOUR_KEY" } r = requests.get( " https://api.hikerapi.com/v2/user/by/username?username=natgeo ", headers=headers ) print(r.json()) Again, "YOUR_KEY"