Example of reusing cookies for authenticated use

andrei-polukhin commented 3 years ago

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After reading your file on reusing cookies, I did not find clarifying information on how to use this library with cookies. Should you add some more documentation devoted specifically to this problem?

LinuxIsCool commented 3 years ago

Agreed, this information would be very helpful thank you.

321qwedsa000 commented 3 years ago

this code may help you to reuse cookie for sure.

from instagram_private_api import Client,ClientCompatPatch
import pickle
import os
def writeSettings(user,pwd,settings_file):
    api = Client(user,pwd)
    pickle.dump(api.settings,open(settings_file,"wb"))
def readSettings(settings_file):
    return pickle.load(open(settings_file,"rb"))
if not os.path.exists("settingObj"):
    writeSettings("user","pwd","settingObj")
cache_settings = readSettings("settingObj")
api = Client("user","pwd",settings=cache_settings)

andrei-polukhin commented 3 years ago

this code may help you to reuse cookie for sure.

from instagram_private_api import Client,ClientCompatPatch
import pickle
import os
def writeSettings(user,pwd,settings_file):
    api = Client(user,pwd)
    pickle.dump(api.settings,open(settings_file,"wb"))
def readSettings(settings_file):
    return pickle.load(open(settings_file,"rb"))
if not os.path.exists("settingObj"):
    writeSettings("user","pwd","settingObj")
cache_settings = readSettings("settingObj")
api = Client("user","pwd",settings=cache_settings)

Thanks!

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