Is there a way to initialize/authenticate the client without username & password?

[tahakucukkatirci]

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Which client are you using?

• [] app (instagram_private_api/)
• [x] web (instagram_web_api/)

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Describe your Question/Issue:

I can login with username and password and then don't need them anymore after I save the settings. No problem with that. I wonder if there is a way to authenticate the user in the initial login without username and password? Maybe by using some cookie values and passing them into the client. Couldn't figure out a way to do this.

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Paste the output of python -V here:

Python 3.6.10 :: Anaconda, Inc.

Code:

# Example code that will produce the error reported
from instagram_web_api import Client

web_api = Client()
user_feed_info = web_api.user_followers('1234567890', count=10)
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[MehdiJafari84]

Hello, Yes, Instagram has an endpoint to login with cookie, I wrote a Chrome extension to get Insta cookie from browser and save it in local storage then I can read cookie in my web app and send it to Insta private api to login without getting username and password. I'm using this repo . this library has a method called LoginWithCookie so private api can handle this process, I dont know this repo has this method or no, Anyway you can do it.