11/08/2024 09:52:27 AM - CRITICAL - instaloader: error: Redirected to login page. Use --login or --load-cookies. Not logged into Instaloader

[mike855]

Description

Hello,

Seems that instaloader do not work without --login even for public profiles. I'm logged in on instaloader, session file is present. But instawebhooks do not seems to use it

Have a nice day

Expected behavior

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Actual behavior

[mmuguet@muguet ~]$ instaloader --login michaelmuguet
Loaded session from /home/mmuguet/.config/instaloader/session-michaelmuguet.
Logged in as michaelmuguet.
Saved session to /home/mmuguet/.config/instaloader/session-michaelmuguet.
No targets were specified, thus nothing has been downloaded.
[mmuguet@muguet ~]$ instawebhooks michaelmuguet https://discord.com/api/webhooks/1304352859214839839/YUJy3lTfAQcgthtbwSZW1moJWKJKjadB211OqVcQ4y-TJe6vdUnYDbI1X1IQQTRrNWAx
11/08/2024 09:52:27 AM - INFO - Starting InstaWebhooks...
11/08/2024 09:52:27 AM - INFO - InstaWebhooks started successfully.
11/08/2024 09:52:27 AM - INFO - Monitoring 'michaelmuguet' every 3600 seconds on ̀https://discord.com/api/webhooks/1304352859214839839/YUJy3lTfAQcgthtbwSZW1moJWKJKjadB211OqVcQ4y-TJe6vdUnYDbI1X1IQQTRrNWAx.
11/08/2024 09:52:27 AM - INFO - Checking for new posts

HTTP redirect from https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/web_profile_info/?username=michaelmuguet to https://i.instagram.com/accounts/login/?next=/api/v1/users/web_profile_info/
11/08/2024 09:52:27 AM - CRITICAL - instaloader: error: Redirected to login page. Use --login or --load-cookies.
Not logged into Instaloader.
  instaloader --login YOUR-USERNAME

Steps to reproduce

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Other details

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InstaWebhooks version

0.1.3

Python version

3.9.18

Platform

Linux

Code of Conduct

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[RyanLua]

Quite a few people are getting the login error even when logged in. Instagram heavily rate limits you even when logged in. From my personal experience I recommend the following:

• Waiting up to 48 hours before running InstaWebhooks again to clear any rate limits
• Increasing the refresh interval to avoid hitting the rate limit

I will likely increase the default refresh interval in a future version to avoid rate limiting.

Related Links

https://github.com/RyanLua/InstaWebhooks/discussions/15 https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader/issues/1617