Login to Instagram

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Depending on usage, this library won’t work as intended because Instagram seemingly checks cookies to make sure the user isn’t a random bot. If using instascrape from a personal computer that has been logged into Instagram before, this doesn’t seem to be a problem. Unfortunately, the library breaks if trying to use it from say a remote server that has never logged into Instagram before.

Describe the solution you’d like Provide a way to bypass these restrictions by either

• logging into Instagram using requests.post or similar lightweight lib
• come up with a way of spoofing/determining/etc. cookies that Instagram looks for
• find out how to request JSON or similar data directly from their server
• any other method that just allows users to bypass Instagram restrictions

Describe alternatives you’ve considered Considered using selenium to login but I really don’t want to force people to install or use selenium, the whole purpose is supposed to be lightweight and selenium has too much overhead and is slow

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[NivardoX]

Hey @chris-greening, have you seen this approach? It had some recent updates. Perhaps is a good way of avoiding selenium and heavier tools.

That’s exactly the idea I was going for! Definitely looking to use requests.post if it’s possible. I’ll tinker around with this later today, thanks for the reference 😏

Awesome, when you start coding this, tag me for help. I would love to help you w this. 😄

[NivardoX]

Hey @chris-greening, have you seen this approach? It had some recent updates. Perhaps is a good way of avoiding selenium and heavier tools.