Getting error in follow_user_followers.py when i execute the followers that have more than 100k Followers

[zeroyjk]

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Code:

"""
    instabot example

    Workflow:
        Follow user's followers by username.
"""

import argparse
import os
import sys

sys.path.append(os.path.join(sys.path[0], '../'))
from instabot import Bot

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=True)
parser.add_argument('-u', type=str, help="username")
parser.add_argument('-p', type=str, help="password")
parser.add_argument('-proxy', type=str, help="proxy")
parser.add_argument('users', type=str, nargs='+', help='users')
args = parser.parse_args()

bot = Bot()
bot.login(username=args.u, password=args.p,
          proxy=args.proxy)

for username in args.users:
    bot.follow_followers(username)

Error/Debug Log:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "follow_user_followers.py", line 27, in <module>
    bot.follow_followers(username)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instabot/bot/bot.py", line 471, in follow_followers
    return follow_followers(self, user_id, nfollows)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instabot/bot/bot_follow.py", line 76, in follow_followers
    followers = self.get_user_followers(user_id, nfollows)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instabot/bot/bot.py", line 356, in get_user_followers
    return get_user_followers(self, user_id, nfollows)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instabot/bot/bot_get.py", line 181, in get_user_followers
    followers = self.api.get_total_followers(user_id, nfollows)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instabot/api/api.py", line 610, in get_total_followers
    user_id, amount, 'followers')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instabot/api/api.py", line 585, in get_total_followers_or_followings
    get(user_id, next_max_id)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instabot/api/api.py", line 427, in get_user_followers
    return self.send_request(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instabot/api/api.py", line 171, in send_request
    self.last_json = json.loads(response.text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 339, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 364, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 380, in raw_decode
    obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
ValueError: Unterminated string starting at: line 1 column 47756 (char 47755)
2018-07-20 11:37:06,757 - INFO - Bot stopped. Worked: 0:01:51.336802
2018-07-20 11:37:06,757 - INFO - Total requests: 516

I have try many time but still not working, im using ubuntu 18.04 LTS

[kintaro1981]

as you can see here: https://github.com/instagrambot/instabot/issues/593

I solved with this: https://github.com/instagrambot/instabot/commit/9f9c054db0bcf6931a9a9a98815a8919e19ba6b4

but now I have this problem here: https://github.com/instagrambot/instabot/issues/593#issuecomment-406644399

[kintaro1981]

@zeroyjk have you solved?

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