400 Bad Request - aborted pulling info URL

Starting over the weekend, Instaloader has begin giving an error. Prior to that, no error was being generated and initial downloads were all completed succesfully.

The command line I am running is:

/usr/local/bin/instaloader --latest-stamps .stamps/<profile>.stamp --login <my_user> --no-metadata-json --no-captions --stories --no-video-thumbnails --abort-on=302,400,429 ‘’ <profile>

Here is what I am seeing:

Using latest stamps from .stamps/<profile>.stamp.
Loaded session from /home/<user>/.config/instaloader/session-<user>.
Logged in as <user>.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/instaloader", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('instaloader==4.9.1', 'console_scripts', 'instaloader')())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/instaloader/__main__.py", line 471, in main
    _main(loader,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/instaloader/__main__.py", line 212, in _main
    }.get(target[0], 'username')
IndexError: string index out of range

If I run it with --quiet, I get a different error:

Download aborted: Query to https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/media/<profile_ID>/info/ responded with "400 Bad Request".

It appears to be doing this for all of the profiles I am downloading ( ~6 ).

I am getting some of the images and stories images/videos, but it doesn’t look like I am necessarily getting them all.

Instaloader version: 4.9.1

Any suggestions or is anything else seeing something like this?

[afterdelight]

yeah this is happening to me too lately, any way to fix it???

[angentanewbe]

Warning: If error 400 occurs and you continue using your account with instaloader or any scraper this will lead to suspension of your account. My account got suspended today. I was downloading my saved posts but Instagram randomly gave error 400 and then when I logged into my account in the Instagram app I found that my account is suspended. So please continue scraping with fake or temporary Instagram account.