[BUG] Instagram requires login

[ScriptSmith]

Instagram's API is now much more aggressive in requiring users to be logged in, which effectively renders Instamancer useless.

Instamancer is designed to be used for gathering publicly available data, and will not add the ability to log in to retrieve data.

[necevil]

@ScriptSmith a while back I saw a fork that had login detection (and supported a credentials file that would be used when that login WAS detected)

I never took it for a spin but needless to say the login detection would now be required for most of what Instamancer does.

I'm not sure if you are discontinuing support due to the fact that beating the login screen is a little more of a grey area, but if you guys are interested there is at least some code to start with.

At some point I will probably give it a go but for anyone who is interested I believe this fork supports login detection and use of a specific set of user credentials: https://github.com/IORoot/instamancer

[restyler]

some scraping is still possible if you use clean residential proxies.. If someone still needs Instagram scraping I can recommend using https://github.com/rzlyp/instagram-scraping (with cloud proxy setting activated) - it still works fine in 2021.

[HOAIAN2]

Try my extension: https://github.com/HOAIAN2/Instagram-Downloader
I use native Instagram API ( I got it from Chrome network tab).
They have 2 API, one for get all user's info (query hash 69ca..) and one for get data form post like photo, video, comment ( query hash 98ff..)
Note: both API still work in Nodejs but they will send back login page later.