[Instagram] Restricted Instagram video file download speed from `scontent.cdninstagram.com`

GetPHP-IR commented 3 years ago

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youtube-dl -v --cookies yt-cookies.txt https://www.instagram.com/tv/CSL6jroDj-Q/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--cookies', 'yt-cookies.txt', 'https://www.instagram.com/tv/CSL6jroDj-Q/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp65001, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.19041
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-102995-g694545b6d5-20210718, ffprobe N-102995-g694545b6d5-20210718
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Instagram] CSL6jroDj-Q: Downloading webpage
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://instagram.fgbb2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t50.2886-16/10000000_942878172924073_6269058584333381852_n.mp4?_nc_ht=instagram.fgbb2-2.fna.fbcdn.net&_nc_cat=101&_nc_ohc=eB0Lj4CACZIAX_SYGaj&edm=ADECaisBAAAA&ccb=7-4&oe=610E3AF4&oh=317173a3c01f3018bb5bd8291be73c7f&_nc_sid=ca78b6'
[download] Destination: Great White 2021-CSL6jroDj-Q.mp4
[download] 100% of 17.91MiB in 08:13```

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The Download speed from instagram is so low and i can not download with max speed .
I even use cookies to bypass login redirect.
The problem is when the youtube-dl start to download for example the file url redirect from https://instagram.fgbb2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/**** to https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/****.
The download speed from https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/ is too low to download instead of https://instagram.fgbb2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/.
I enter the address in chrome and go the https://instagram.fgbb2-2.fna.fbcdn.net, then there is no redirection to https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/

Now I want to use only https://instagram.fgbb2-2.fna.fbcdn.net like url to download videos from instagram

bashonly commented 3 years ago

I can confirm that instagram seems to be throttling youtube-dl video download speeds. With youtube-dl, I get a 45KB/s download speed. When I download the same video using the mp4 URL with my browser or cURL, I get 4+MB/s download speeds. This seems to be happening with every video regardless of whether I am logged in or not.

ghost commented 3 years ago

Try with --referer https://www.instagram.com/

bashonly commented 3 years ago

Try with --referer https://www.instagram.com/

This worked for me.

GetPHP-IR commented 3 years ago

Thanks👌 and Facebook is same as Instagram. They use same algorithm and Facebook throttling the speed. Is this solution work with Facebook??

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[Instagram] Restricted Instagram video file download speed from `scontent.cdninstagram.com` #29736

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