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snarfed / huffduff-video

📺 Extract the audio from videos on YouTube, Vimeo, and other sites and send it to Huffduffer.
https://huffduff-video.snarfed.org/
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Instagram not working #44

Open cadeceus opened 4 years ago

cadeceus commented 4 years ago

I tried a few Instagram videos and get: "ERROR: Unable to extract video url"

My theory was that it isn't using the latest youtube-dl release (the last two changes were to fix Instagram problems), but then saw you wrote on another issue that it updates automatically.

snarfed commented 4 years ago

sorry for the trouble! instagram has been ratcheting up its bot blocking and rate limiting over the last year or so, and huffduff-video may be a current victim. right now, IG is redirecting requests from from huffduff-video (probably by IP address) to the IG login page, which breaks youtube-dl.

other people see this too sometimes, across various youtube-dl issues - https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues?q=is%3Aissue+instagram - but @remitamine has generally been closing them as "can't reproduce," which is disappointing but understandable. so sadly i don't have an easy answer here.