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<section id="troubleshooting">
<span id="id1"></span><h1>Troubleshooting<a class="headerlink" href="#troubleshooting" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<section id="too-many-requests">
<h2>429 Too Many Requests<a class="headerlink" href="#too-many-requests" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>Instaloader has a logic to keep track of its requests to Instagram and to obey
their rate limits. The rate controller assumes that</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>at one time, Instaloader is the only application that consumes requests, i.e.
neither the Instagram browser interface, nor a mobile app, nor another
Instaloader instance is running in parallel, and</p></li>
<li><p>no requests had been consumed when Instaloader starts.</p></li>
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<p>The latter one implies that restarting or reinstantiating Instaloader often
within short time is prone to cause a 429.</p>
<p>Since the behavior of the rate controller might change between different
versions of Instaloader, make sure to use the current version of Instaloader,
especially when encountering many 429 errors.</p>
<p>If a request is denied with a 429,
Instaloader retries the request as soon as the temporary ban is assumed to be
expired. In case the retry continuously fails for some reason, which should not
happen under normal conditions, consider adjusting the
<a class="reference internal" href="cli-options.html#cmdoption-max-connection-attempts"><code class="xref std std-option docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--max-connection-attempts</span></code></a> option.</p>
<p>There have been observations that services, that in their nature offer
promiscuous IP addresses, such as cloud, VPN and public proxy services, might be
subject to significantly stricter limits for anonymous access. However,
<a class="reference internal" href="cli-options.html#login"><span class="std std-ref">logged-in accesses</span></a> do not seem to be affected.</p>
<p>Instaloader allows to adjust the rate controlling behavior by overriding
<a class="reference internal" href="module/instaloadercontext.html#instaloader.RateController" title="instaloader.RateController"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">instaloader.RateController</span></code></a>.</p>
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<section id="too-many-queries-in-the-last-time">
<h2>Too many queries in the last time<a class="headerlink" href="#too-many-queries-in-the-last-time" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p><strong>“Too many queries in the last time”</strong> is not an error. It is a notice that the
rate limit has almost been reached, according to Instaloader’s own rate
accounting mechanism.</p>
<p>Instaloader allows to adjust the rate controlling behavior by overriding
<a class="reference internal" href="module/instaloadercontext.html#instaloader.RateController" title="instaloader.RateController"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">instaloader.RateController</span></code></a>.</p>
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<section id="private-but-not-followed">
<h2>Private but not followed<a class="headerlink" href="#private-but-not-followed" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>You have to follow a private account to access most of its associated
information.</p>
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<section id="login-error">
<h2>Login error<a class="headerlink" href="#login-error" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>Instaloader’s login <em>should</em> work fine, both with and without
Two-Factor-Authentication. It also supports handling the <em>checkpoint challenge</em>,
issued when Instagram suspects authentication activity on your account, by
pointing the user to an URL to be opened in a browser.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, in <a class="extlink-issue reference external" href="https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader/issues/92">Issue #92</a>, <a class="extlink-issue reference external" href="https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader/issues/615">Issue #615</a>, <a class="extlink-issue reference external" href="https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader/issues/1150">Issue #1150</a> and <a class="extlink-issue reference external" href="https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader/issues/1217">Issue #1217</a>,
users reported problems with
logging in. We recommend to always keep the session file which Instaloader
creates when using <a class="reference internal" href="cli-options.html#cmdoption-login"><code class="xref std std-option docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--login</span></code></a>. If a session file is present,
<a class="reference internal" href="cli-options.html#cmdoption-login"><code class="xref std std-option docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--login</span></code></a> does not make use of the failure-prone login procedure.
Also, session files usually do not expire.</p>
<p>If you do not have a session file present, you may use the following script
(<a class="extlink-example reference external" href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/instaloader/instaloader/master/docs/codesnippets/615_import_firefox_session.py">Example 615_import_firefox_session.py</a>) to workaround login problems by
importing the session cookies from Firefox and bypassing Instaloader’s login and
so still use Instaloader’s logged-in functionality.</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">argparse</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">ArgumentParser</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">glob</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">glob</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">os.path</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">expanduser</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">platform</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">system</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sqlite3</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">OperationalError</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">connect</span>
<span class="k">try</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">instaloader</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">ConnectionException</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">Instaloader</span>
<span class="k">except</span> <span class="ne">ModuleNotFoundError</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">raise</span> <span class="ne">SystemExit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"Instaloader not found.</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2"> pip install [--user] instaloader"</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">get_cookiefile</span><span class="p">():</span>
<span class="n">default_cookiefile</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="s2">"Windows"</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">"~/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/*/cookies.sqlite"</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">"Darwin"</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">"~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/*/cookies.sqlite"</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="p">}</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">system</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="s2">"~/.mozilla/firefox/*/cookies.sqlite"</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">cookiefiles</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">glob</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">expanduser</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">default_cookiefile</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">cookiefiles</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">raise</span> <span class="ne">SystemExit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"No Firefox cookies.sqlite file found. Use -c COOKIEFILE."</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">cookiefiles</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">import_session</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">cookiefile</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">sessionfile</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"Using cookies from </span><span class="si">{}</span><span class="s2">."</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">cookiefile</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="n">conn</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">connect</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">"file:</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">cookiefile</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">?immutable=1"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">uri</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">try</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">cookie_data</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">conn</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">execute</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="s2">"SELECT name, value FROM moz_cookies WHERE baseDomain='instagram.com'"</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">except</span> <span class="n">OperationalError</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">cookie_data</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">conn</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">execute</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="s2">"SELECT name, value FROM moz_cookies WHERE host LIKE '</span><span class="si">%i</span><span class="s2">nstagram.com'"</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">instaloader</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Instaloader</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">max_connection_attempts</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">instaloader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">context</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">_session</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cookies</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">update</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">cookie_data</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">username</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">instaloader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">test_login</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">username</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">raise</span> <span class="ne">SystemExit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"Not logged in. Are you logged in successfully in Firefox?"</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"Imported session cookie for </span><span class="si">{}</span><span class="s2">."</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">username</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="n">instaloader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">context</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">username</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">username</span>
<span class="n">instaloader</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">save_session_to_file</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">sessionfile</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="vm">__name__</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s2">"__main__"</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">p</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ArgumentParser</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">p</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_argument</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"-c"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">"--cookiefile"</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">p</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_argument</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"-f"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">"--sessionfile"</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">args</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">p</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">parse_args</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="k">try</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">import_session</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">args</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cookiefile</span> <span class="ow">or</span> <span class="n">get_cookiefile</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="n">args</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sessionfile</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">except</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">ConnectionException</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">OperationalError</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">e</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">raise</span> <span class="ne">SystemExit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"Cookie import failed: </span><span class="si">{}</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">e</span><span class="p">))</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>To use this script,</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p>Download the script: <a class="extlink-example reference external" href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/instaloader/instaloader/master/docs/codesnippets/615_import_firefox_session.py">Example 615_import_firefox_session.py</a>,</p></li>
<li><p>Login to Instagram in Firefox,</p></li>
<li><p>Execute the snippet, e.g. with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">python</span> <span class="pre">615_import_firefox_session.py</span></code>,</p></li>
<li><p>Then, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">instaloader</span> <span class="pre">-l</span> <span class="pre">USERNAME</span></code> should work fine.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>This script also supports specifying a cookie file path, which may be useful if
you use multiple Firefox profiles or if your operating system has the directory
structure differently set up. Also, you can specify an alternative session file
path.</p>
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