Post API no longer working, "ChallengeChoice.EMAIL" and "You've Been Logged Out"

[oliveirabruno01]

Since today morning I can't post using this API anymore. It requests an email challenge, but after I enter the required code it raises this error:

[ERROR]  Request Failed, got back: [{'message': 'login_required', 'error_title': "You've Been Logged Out", 'error_body': 'Please log back in.', 'logout_reason': 8, 'status': 'fail'}]

Also, sometimes it's triggering a security alert on instagram/threads.net, and I need to change the password (already changed it sometimes but still not working).

Update: sometimes it raises this error instead:

Exception: Request Failed, got back: [{'message': 'Please wait a few minutes before you try again.', 'status': 'fail'}]

[PDGIII]

I'm getting flagged all the time and can't seem to figure out 2FA also.

[Danie1]

Hey, it seems to be an issue in the way you are logging in and not the Post API. I highly recommend that once you are logged in you always use the cached token. I am still using the same token from a week ago.

Regarding customization for the login (email challenge, sms, 2FA, ... etc): By customizing the http client you will be able to specify additional arguments to the Instagrapi API.

• This is how you specify the HTTP client to ThreadsAPI: https://github.com/Danie1/threads-api#customize-http-client

• This is how you add additional functionality to the Instagrapi login (such as email challenge response, ... etc): https://github.com/adw0rd/instagrapi/blob/master/examples/challenge_resolvers.py

• This is one of the HTTP clients we provide that you can copy and modify to your needs: https://github.com/Danie1/threads-api/blob/main/threads_api/src/http_sessions/instagrapi_session.py#L24 On line 24 the .login() function is called from the Instagrapi API. You can provide the challenge handlers as described in https://github.com/adw0rd/instagrapi/blob/master/examples/challenge_resolvers.py like so:

  def auth(self, **kwargs):
      # restore original headers for Instagram login
      self._instagrapi_client.private.headers = self._instagrapi_headers
      self._instagrapi_client.challenge_code_handler = challenge_code_handler
      self._instagrapi_client.change_password_handler = change_password_handler
      self._instagrapi_client.login(**kwargs)
      token = self._instagrapi_client.private.headers['Authorization'].split("Bearer IGT:2:")[1]
  
      # override with Threads headers
      self._instagrapi_client.private.headers = self._threads_headers
  
      return token

Note that you can override the whole authentication mechanism this way to fit your needs.

You are welcome to open a PR with your custom http client for others to use. 😃