How to get sessionid after login?

[dumitruPuggle]

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Hello!

I've been having big trouble logging into instagram this week. I was trying to log in with a script that interacts with dom, which fills the login, password with my credentials. But the main problem, is that Instagram web app uses an framework called React, which doesn't rerender the component when I change manually the input using .value = "my value". In short: I need to find a way to collect sessionid, ds_user_id, rur, and other cookies. One way I've been able to do this is to create an request to https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/ajax/. The problem is that this requires the 'enc_password' parameter, which I can't generate. I tried: https://github.com/dumitruPuggle/research/blob/main/scrapfly-ig-login.js - but it doesn't work. I've came across this library, which gave me some hope that this task could be accomplished. I tried to login using instagram-private-api, and it worked, but all I need, is just to get those cookies.

Thank you!

[paha77]

Have you tried reading cookies from your automated browser?

[dumitruPuggle]

Yes, it returns cookies. The only problem is that I can't decide to run an automated headless browser on my production server, because it's too expensive.