Redirected to login page. Use --login or --load-cookies.

[boomho]

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I logged into an account in Instaloader.
Then I tried to link an Instagram account to Discord with a standard command, but it said I did not log into Instaloader.
I don't know what to do cuz it seems like a loop to me, can anyone help, please?

root@24-8-30-0449:~# instaloader --login gregariouss
Loaded session from /root/.config/instaloader/session-gregariouss.
Logged in as gregariouss.
Saved session to /root/.config/instaloader/session-gregariouss.
No targets were specified, thus nothing has been downloaded.
root@24-8-30-0449:~# instawebhooks -i 1800 taylorswift https://discord.com/api/webhooks/1294337975464501672/_yoKqH3Fad8i-1yo6tumRCnLqCc7WKzuEDV4Bd261-DrFSmhx0zMmkd5vXtQDRo6MbEA
10/11/2024 06:45:33 PM - INFO - Starting InstaWebhooks...
10/11/2024 06:45:33 PM - INFO - InstaWebhooks started successfully.
10/11/2024 06:45:33 PM - INFO - Monitoring 'taylorswift' every 1800 seconds on ̀https://discord.com/api/webhooks/1294337975464501672/_yoKqH3Fad8i-1yo6tumRCnLqCc7WKzuEDV4Bd261-DrFSmhx0zMmkd5vXtQDRo6MbEA.
10/11/2024 06:45:33 PM - INFO - Checking for new posts

HTTP redirect from https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/web_profile_info/?username=taylorswift to https://i.instagram.com/accounts/login/?next=/api/v1/users/web_profile_info/
10/11/2024 06:45:33 PM - CRITICAL - instaloader: error: Redirected to login page. Use --login or --load-cookies.
Not logged into Instaloader.
  instaloader --login YOUR-USERNAME
root@24-8-30-0449:~#

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[RyanLua]

Looks like an issue with Instaloader not properly logging you in or you reaching the rate limit (which can be an issue with lower refresh intervals).

1. Try the Instaloader login error troubleshooting steps
2. Wait a while before running InstaWebhooks and decrease your refresh interval

Let me know what works since this problem is pretty common and I can't find a reason how to stop this from occurring. The Instaloader GitHub has quite a few issues that are about the same error you are getting:

• Instaloader directed to login. instaloader/instaloader#1617
• It stops downloading? instaloader/instaloader#1672
• HTTP redirect to Instagram Login Page Issue instaloader/instaloader#1667
• Redirect to login page issue (HTTP Redirect from url to anotherUrl) instaloader/instaloader#1666

[boomho]

Sorry it took such a long time to write this reply.

I suspended deploying Instawebhooks for personal reasons until a few days ago. And I have now found a way to solve it.

Here's my solution:

1. Log in to my Instagram account on Firefox on my local desktop (Win10 for me).

2. Find the cookies.sqlite file manually in C:\Users%%%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles%%%-release, then upload it to my remote server.

3. Use the instaloader --cookiefile command to create a session with the cookie.
   instaloader --cookiefile /root/%%%/instaloader/cookies.sqlite

4. Add a line to main.py:
   session_file = os.path.expanduser(f"/root/%%%/instaloader/sessionfile")

5. Add a block in the async def check_for_new_posts() module:

    if os.path.exists(session_file):
        try:
            L.load_session_from_file(args.instagram_username, session_file)
            logger.info(f"Successfully loaded session from {session_file}")
        except Exception as e:
            logger.error(f"Failed to load session: {e}")

Now I am good with loading the session to log in to my account and check new posts.

I hope this will be helpful.

Thanks for your dedication, and have a nice day!

[RyanLua]

There's now a fix for this added in #39 which adds a new argument for logging in.

You can use --interactive-login if you don't want your command to contain your password.

instawebhooks INSTAGRAM_USERNAME DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL --login USERNAME PASSWORD

Unfortunately, you can't login using a session key file or cookie file yet but we're planning to add it in the future (tracked by #40). Hopefully, we can get this done before the next version.

Feel free to install InstaWebhooks from the repo using pip since the main branch is pretty stable.

For more information about the argument and usage, see the documentation: https://instawebhooks.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html