instagram_private_api | A Python library to access Instagram 's private API | REST library

by ping Python Version: 1.6.0 License: MIT

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instagram_private_api is a Python library typically used in Telecommunications, Media, Advertising, Marketing, Web Services, REST applications. instagram_private_api has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Permissive License and it has medium support. However instagram_private_api has 6 bugs. You can install using 'pip install instagram_private_api' or download it from GitHub, PyPI.

I wrote this to access Instagram's API when they clamped down on developer access. Because this is meant to achieve parity with the official public API, methods not available in the public API will generally have lower priority. Problems? Please check the docs before submitting an issue.

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instagram_private_api has a medium active ecosystem.

It has 2720 star(s) with 616 fork(s). There are 115 watchers for this library.

It had no major release in the last 12 months.

There are 115 open issues and 219 have been closed. On average issues are closed in 101 days. There are 17 open pull requests and 0 closed requests.

It has a neutral sentiment in the developer community.

The latest version of instagram_private_api is 1.6.0

Quality

instagram_private_api has 6 bugs (0 blocker, 0 critical, 6 major, 0 minor) and 64 code smells.

Security

instagram_private_api has no vulnerabilities reported, and its dependent libraries have no vulnerabilities reported.

instagram_private_api code analysis shows 0 unresolved vulnerabilities.

There are 22 security hotspots that need review.

License

instagram_private_api is licensed under the MIT License. This license is Permissive.

Permissive licenses have the least restrictions, and you can use them in most projects.

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instagram_private_api releases are available to install and integrate.

Deployable package is available in PyPI.

Build file is available. You can build the component from source.

Installation instructions, examples and code snippets are available.

instagram_private_api saves you 4186 person hours of effort in developing the same functionality from scratch.

It has 8885 lines of code, 589 functions and 68 files.

It has medium code complexity. Code complexity directly impacts maintainability of the code.

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instagram_private_api Examples and Code Snippets

WEIRD "json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)"

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License : Strong Copyleft (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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def media_info2(self, short_code):
    """
    Alternative method to get media info. This method works for carousel media.

    :param short_code: A media's shortcode
    :param kwargs:
    :return:
    """
    headers = {
        'User-Ag

Can I automatically upload pictures to Instagram?

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pip install instapy-cli

#Code
from instapy_cli import client

username = 'username' #your username
password = '**********' #your password 
image = 'Hi_instagram.png' #here you can put the image directory
text = 'Here you can put your capt

Instagram private API 403 even with cookies and headers

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def getSession(rhx_gis, variables):
        values = "%s:%s" % (
                rhx_gis,
                variables)
        x_instagram_gis = hashlib.md5(values.encode()).hexdigest()

        session = requests.Session()
        session.h

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How to perform unauthenticated Instagram web scraping in response to recent private API changes?

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How to perform unauthenticated Instagram web scraping in response to recent private API changes?

Asked 2019-May-03 at 08:27

Months ago, Instagram began rendering their public API inoperable by removing most features and refusing to accept new applications for most permissions scopes. Further changes were made this week which further constricts developer options.

Many of us have turned to Instagram's private web API to implement the functionality we previously had. One standout ping/instagram_private_api manages to rebuild most of the prior functionality, however, with the publicly announced changes this week, Instagram also made underlying changes to their private API, requiring in magic variables, user-agents, and MD5 hashing to make web scraping requests possible. This can be seen by following the recent releases on the previously linked git repository, and the exact changes needed to continue fetching data can be seen here.

These changes include:

Persisting the User Agent & CSRF token between requests.
Making an initial request to https://instagram.com/ to grab an rhx_gis magic key from the response body.
Setting the X-Instagram-GIS header, which is formed by magically concatenating the rhx_gis key and query variables before passing them through an MD5 hash.

Anything less than this will result in a 403 error. These changes have been implemented successfully in the above repository, however, my attempt in JS continues to fail. In the below code, I am attempting to fetch the first 9 posts from a user timeline. The query parameters which determine this are:

query_hash of 42323d64886122307be10013ad2dcc44 (fetch media from the user's timeline).
variables.id of any user ID as a string (the user to fetch media from).
variables.first, the number of posts to fetch, as an integer.

Previously, this request could be made without any of the above changes by simply GETting from https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_hash=42323d64886122307be10013ad2dcc44&variables=%7B%22id%22%3A%225380311726%22%2C%22first%22%3A1%7D, as the URL was unprotected.

However, my attempt at implementing the functionality to successfully written in the above repository is not working, and I only receive 403 responses from Instagram. I'm using superagent as my requests library, in a node environment.

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ANSWER

Answered 2018-Apr-12 at 03:51

query_hash is not constant and keep changing over time.

For example ProfilePage scripts included these scripts:

https://www.instagram.com/static/bundles/base/ConsumerCommons.js/9e645e0f38c3.js https://www.instagram.com/static/bundles/base/Consumer.js/1c9217689868.js

The hash is located in one of the above script, e.g. for edge_followed_by:

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49786980

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