Please revive PyInstastories!

[sherl0ck17]

I'm begging you to please revive back PyInstastories instead of you working your time on PyInstaLive... I really do hope you will take my advice, I'm at my wits end therefore I need your help! Am so used to your codings and those I find on github don't even come close to yours!

Previously, I was using fine, but upon downloading quite frequent this error starts to show up "[E] (1) Download failed: Please wait a few minutes before you try again.. [W] Trying again in 5 seconds."

I thought that it might be python issue so I updated python to the latest version (3.11.3), 'python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip instagram private api', 'python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel', 'python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip client'

After that, this is the most recent error....

"Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\V\InstaStoriesAPI\PyInstaStories\pyinstastories.py", line 18, in from instagram_private_api import ( ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'instagram_private_api'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\V\InstaStoriesAPI\PyInstaStories\pyinstastories.py", line 26, in from instagram_private_api import ( ImportError: cannot import name 'Client' from 'instagram_private_api' (unknown location)"

[dvingerh]

I'm not going to update either of the two scripts

"[E] (1) Download failed: Please wait a few minutes before you try again..

You get this error because of rate limiting, it's not a problem with the script

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'instagram_private_api'

You need to install the module mentioned https://github.com/ping/instagram_private_api#install

The script should still be working, if you run into any errors google them or learn Python so you can fix it yourself

[sherl0ck17]

I'm curious why won't you maintain PyInstastories any further?

Isn't it part of your handwork, wouldn't be a waste just to give it up after working on it for so long?

[dvingerh]

I answered this here https://github.com/dvingerh/PyInstaLive/issues/149#issuecomment-1361807139

[sherl0ck17]

I see, it's such a pity to know that... It's definitely a loss to mankind without your help!

Is there a way for me to contact you, other than your email if I were to have any ongoing issues with it?

Btw, is there a way to change the rate limiting based on what you've addressed to my issue?

[dvingerh]

The rate limiting is happening because you are checking for users too frequently. It's a problem that's not really possible solving in code. You'll need to have some luck with either waiting a while, making a new account and/or using a different IP address

If you have ongoing issues with it you'll have to use Google, the answers you'll find there should be sufficient and my answer would very likely be the same

[Infinitay]

You can use gallery-dl for IG posts and stories. It doesn't support live streams.