Library stopped working

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Library stopped working

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It seems that Instagram feeds are no more publicly available, as a result this scraper does not work anymore.
The Instagram page is always redirected to the login page.

Answer 1 · 2020-11-27T17:08:26.000Z

It works for me

Your network is probably temporary banned (See #25)

Answer 2 · 2020-11-27T17:47:25.000Z

I don't think, logout and clear all cookies. Then try to open the account page:
https://www.instagram.com/pascal_belhomme/
You will get redirected to the login page.

Answer 3 · 2020-11-27T18:08:00.000Z

Probably you have cookies and figure still logged in to Instagram. Ensure to have logged out and cleared all cookies. The login page is always redirected

Answer 4 · 2020-11-27T18:16:50.000Z

Related to #25

Answer 5 · 2020-11-27T18:24:47.000Z

The first screenshot was in incognito mode. Tried again and the same:

Answer 6 · 2020-11-27T19:03:02.000Z

@jsanahuja do some more tests to understand what's happening because all my tests changing IP address, browser, etc lead always to the same result when i open https://www.instagram.com/pascal_belhomme/, that is the Instagram login page

Answer 7 · 2020-11-27T19:03:20.000Z

You can also test my demo site, 302 redirect to login:

Answer 8 · 2020-11-27T20:29:02.000Z

I think related to: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/jz5o3f/instagram_links_redirect_to_login_page_anyway_to/

Answer 9 · 2020-12-24T17:14:06.000Z

The new client-side caching (cache_time) feature implemented in #97 (2.0.0 release) should deal with this.