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[pakkiraju]

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Which example file are you using?

import instabot
bot = instabot.Bot()
bot.login()

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Describe your Question/Issue:

Im trying to simply login with the bot and it fails to write my login creds to secret.txt. Any help is appreciated. Or if even you tell me the format to put the credentials into the secret.txt I can handle it from there. Thanks.

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Paste the output of python -V here:

Code you are using:

import instabot
bot = instabot.Bot()
bot.login()

Error/Debug Log:

C:\Users\akkir\.virtualenvs\instabot-crpN-NoD\Scripts\python.exe C:/Users/akkir/Desktop/instabot/test.py
Your file is broken. We will delete it and try again.
2020-03-26 14:09:00,730 - INFO - Instabot version: 0.116.0 Started
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\akkir\Desktop\instabot\instabot\api\prepare.py", line 62, in check_secret
    login, password = f.readline().strip().split(":")
ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 1)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/akkir/Desktop/instabot/test.py", line 3, in <module>
    bot.login()
  File "C:\Users\akkir\Desktop\instabot\instabot\bot\bot.py", line 443, in login
    if self.api.login(**args) is False:
  File "C:\Users\akkir\Desktop\instabot\instabot\api\api.py", line 219, in login
    username, password = get_credentials(username=username)
  File "C:\Users\akkir\Desktop\instabot\instabot\api\prepare.py", line 24, in get_credentials
    while not check_secret():
  File "C:\Users\akkir\Desktop\instabot\instabot\api\prepare.py", line 75, in check_secret
    os.remove(SECRET_FILE)
PermissionError: [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: 'C:\\Users\\akkir\\Desktop\\instabot/config/secret.txt'

Process finished with exit code 1

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