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[BUG] Images are being uploaded without captions

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Describe the bug Images are being uploaded without captions.

To Reproduce Happens every time.

from instapy_cli import client

user = input('username')
password = input('password')
text = 'test #foo #bar'

with client(username, password) as cli:
    cli.upload('./testfile.png', text)

Expected behavior Images with the text variable as caption on Instagram.

Env (please complete the following information):

OS: Linux Mint 18.3
Python: 3.6
instapy-cli Version: 0.0.12

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:5

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Donearmcommented, Sep 27, 2019

Hadn’t been trying for a few weeks but today it worked (same command as my last comment). I guess it was an issue on Instagram’s side.

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Donearmcommented, Aug 21, 2019

Yes, both using “caption=text” and just the text variable. The complete code to upload is:

with client(username, password) as cli:
    cli.upload(sys.argv[1], text)

An example caption would be:

@accountname •\r\n•\r\n•\r\n•\r\n•\r\n #hashtag1 #hashtag2 #hashtag3

And so on with the hashtags. Last week I had a similar issue where the hashtags and periods were being posted but not the accountname, nor the newlines were working (only the first one as per #45 ). Now the whole caption is absent