ERROR - Request returns 405 error!

[MrMdR]

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Code:

"""
    instabot example

    Workflow:
    1) Downloads your medias

"""

import os
import sys

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

bot = Bot()
bot.login()
medias = bot.get_total_user_medias(bot.user_id)
bot.download_photos(medias)

Error/Debug Log:

2019-08-01 13:22:08,132 - INFO - Logged-in successfully as '[instaname]'!
2019-08-01 13:22:08,134 - INFO - Saved cookie!
2019-08-01 13:22:08,574 - INFO - Going to download 8 medias.
  0%|                                                                                            | 0/8 [00:00<?, ?it/s]2019-08-01 13:22:11,601 - ERROR - Request returns 405 error!
 12%|██████████▌                                                                         | 1/8 [00:03<00:23,  3.36s/it]2019-08-01 13:22:13,578 - ERROR - Request returns 405 error!
 25%|█████████████████████                                                               | 2/8 [00:05<00:17,  2.85s/it]2019-08-01 13:22:17,205 - ERROR - Request returns 405 error!
 38%|███████████████████████████████▌                                                    | 3/8 [00:08<00:15,  3.09s/it]2019-08-01 13:22:19,495 - ERROR - Request returns 405 error!
 50%|██████████████████████████████████████████                                          | 4/8 [00:10<00:11,  2.85s/it]2019-08-01 13:22:23,223 - ERROR - Request returns 405 error!
 62%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████▌                               | 5/8 [00:14<00:09,  3.11s/it]2019-08-01 13:22:26,804 - ERROR - Request returns 405 error!
 75%|███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████                     | 6/8 [00:18<00:06,  3.25s/it]2019-08-01 13:22:29,800 - ERROR - Request returns 405 error!
 88%|█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▌          | 7/8 [00:21<00:03,  3.18s/it]2019-08-01 13:22:33,235 - ERROR - Request returns 405 error!
100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 8/8 [00:24<00:00,  3.25s/it]
2019-08-01 13:22:33,456 - ERROR - Request returns 405 error!
2019-08-01 13:22:33,457 - INFO - Bot stopped. Worked: 0:00:42.477759
2019-08-01 13:22:33,462 - INFO - Total requests: 12

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Describe your issue

For almost all the scripts I get a 405 error. I've tried to reinstall python and re-downloaded the Git repo (zip) multiple times. The error occurs with a lot of scripts (eg liking, commenting, following) but not all (eg 'collect_stats.py'). I've searched for the issue and I'm not the only one having this problem. However, no solutions have been found in these (old) issues.

I've installed python and downloaded the ZIP from the project page. I run instabot trough cmd.exe (I'm fairly new to git)

Thanks in advance! Mark :)

[disayner]

You reinstalled python. After that, how to remove instabot? And how to install instabot?

[MrMdR]

I don't completely understand your comment but I removed python and the Instabot files. I reinstalled python and downloaded the Instabot files again. Sadly this I still got the error.

These are my steps: 1) open cmd.exe 2) typecd downloads\instabot\examples 3) type python download_your_photos.py opt: 4) give the credentials of my Instagram account

[disayner]

You can try it:

1. open cmd.exe
2. pip uninstall instabot
3. Checked that it was deleted by re-entering the command for deletion pip uninstall instabot
4. Downloaded the latest version instabot: https://github.com/instagrambot/instabot/archive/master.zip
5. unpacked, moved to the instabot-master folder (by CMD) and executed the command setup.py install
6. after installation try running the script again (download_your_photos.py)

[MrMdR]

Thank you @disayner ! Everything seems to work fine now :)