Unable to resolve "this was me" challenge with ig.challenge.auto(true)

So I’ve looked through all the issues and examples and I still cannot get this to work so sorry if I am missing something simple. I am successfully able to login with two of my accounts with no challenges necessary, but I get IgCheckpointError on a friend’s account that I am trying to use. I am using a third party proxy with all of my requests. My code looks like so:

console.log('request received...')
  ig = new IgApiClient();
  ig.state.generateDevice(username);
  // apply agent class to request library defaults
  ig.request.defaults.agentClass = shttps;
  ig.request.defaults.agentOptions = {
    // @ts-ignore
    socksHost: '@@@', // proxy hostname
    socksPort: 0000,
    socksUsername: '0000',
    socksPassword: '000',
  };

  console.log("authenticating...");
  bluebird.try(async () => {
    process.nextTick(async () => await ig.simulate.postLoginFlow());
    auth = await ig.account.login(username, password);
    console.log("successfully authenticated")
    generateFollowers(response)

  }).catch(IgCheckpointError, async () => {
    console.log("authentication requires challenge...");
    console.log("checkpoint info:");
    console.log(ig.state.checkpoint);
    console.log(await ig.challenge.auto(true));
    console.log("challenge info:");
    console.log(ig.state.checkpoint);
    // const { code } = await inquirer.prompt([
    //   {
    //     type: 'input',
    //     name: 'code',
    //     message: 'Enter code',
    //   },
    // ]);
    // console.log(await ig.challenge.sendSecurityCode(code));
    console.log("successfully authenticated!")
    generateFollowers(response)
  })

As you can see I have commented out the sendSecurityCode part of it because I am not receiving a code and the ig.state.checkpoint is null at that point. I have tried with and without the security code part and nothing seems to work, and I usually get ‘Unhandled rejection IgResponseError: POST /api/v1/challenge/reset/3662491500/iOHcynqQAa/ - 500 Internal Server Error;’

[romshiri]

Having the same issue. Does anyone have a solution or a way to workaround this?

[Nerixyz]

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