challenge_required Stuck/Looping (it was me) SOLVED

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Question

Why i’m stuck in looping challenge_required ? i always click it was me Button. but after login again stuck in challenge_required again.

How to auto click It Was Me or to Solve this challenge?

Code

A meaningful section of your code (else delete this). If you are using TypeScript replace js with typescript.

const { IgApiClient, IgCheckpointError } = require('instagram-private-api');
const Bluebird = require('bluebird');
const inquirer = require('inquirer');

/**
 * This method won't catch all checkpoint errors
 * There's currently a new checkpoint used by instagram which requires 'web-support'
 */

(async () => {
  const ig = new IgApiClient();
  ig.state.generateDevice('user');
  Bluebird.try(async () => {
    const auth = await ig.account.login('user', 'pw');
    console.log(auth);
  }).catch(IgCheckpointError, async () => {
    console.log(ig.state.checkpoint); // Checkpoint info here
    await ig.challenge.auto(true); // Requesting sms-code or click "It was me" button
    console.log(ig.state.checkpoint); // Challenge info here
    const { code } = await inquirer.prompt([
      {
        type: 'input',
        name: 'code',
        message: 'Enter code',
      },
    ]);
    console.log(await ig.challenge.sendSecurityCode(code));
  }).catch(e => console.log('Could not resolve checkpoint:', e, e.stack));
})();

Error and Output

{
  message: 'challenge_required',
  challenge: {
    url: 'https://i.instagram.com/challenge/7536877086/C5B3T4qlLZ/',
    api_path: '/challenge/7536877086/C5B3T4qlLZ/',
    hide_webview_header: true,
    lock: true,
    logout: false,
    native_flow: true
  },
  status: 'fail',
  error_type: 'checkpoint_challenge_required'
}

[areltiyan]

@tomopan

maybe you can test this

that code you can get from Email or SMS

const { IgApiClient, IgCheckpointError } = require('instagram-private-api');
const Bluebird = require('bluebird');
const inquirer = require('inquirer');

/**
 * This method won't catch all checkpoint errors
 * There's currently a new checkpoint used by instagram which requires 'web-support'
 */
const IG_USER = '';
const IG_PW = '';

(async () => {
  const ig = new IgApiClient();
  ig.state.generateDevice(IG_USER);
  Bluebird.try(async () => {
    const auth = await ig.account.login(IG_USER, IG_PW);
    console.log(auth);
  }).catch(IgCheckpointError, async () => {
    console.log(ig.state.checkpoint); // Checkpoint info here
    await ig.challenge.selectVerifyMethod(1, false); //1. Email 0. SMS  send code OTP
    console.log(ig.state.checkpoint); // Challenge info here
    console.log(chalk.green('[+++] Check OTP Email'))
    const { code } = await inquirer.prompt([
      {
        type: 'input',
        name: 'code',
        message: 'Enter code',
      },
    ]);
    console.log(await ig.challenge.sendSecurityCode(code));
  }).catch(e => console.log('Could not resolve checkpoint:', e, e.stack));
})();

[icodeforlove]

also change the

  ig.state.generateDevice(...);