[instagram] error: HTTP redirect to login page

[Vishvamitra]

I've just tried to download pics from 10 profiles after 10 days of inactivity but all the downloads fail and the terminal prompts the following error message:
[instagram][error] HTTP redirect to login page (https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/)
I'm running the latest version of gallery-dl (1.16.1).
Is there any workaround for this?

[mikf]

Not really, except maybe increasing the delay between HTTP requests even more, or logging in. Changing your IP should also work.

Instagram only allows for a very limited amount of HTTP requests in a certain time interval before it always redirects to the login page for the next 12-24 hours.

[Vishvamitra]

Thank you very much for replying. How do I increase the delay of HTTP requests? Is it possible by editing the gallery-dl config or is there another way of doing it?
As for the "logging in" part, I'm not sure of what you mean, since I always run gallery-dl with the -u and -p options to download content from instagram. Maybe I'm missing a step, though.

[mikf]

Maybe the cached login session has expired? (Why else would you get redirected to the login page)

Run gallery-dl --clear-cache to force a re-login and renew the cached session the next time you download from Instagram. You should see a Logging in as ... message. Maybe that helps, but no guarantees.

How do I increase the delay of HTTP requests?

With the sleep-request option. Instagram uses 5 seconds by default.

[Vishvamitra]

After reading your reply, I tried to download the files a couple of times. Setting the --sleep 6 option only helpt for the first two downloads, whereas running the gallery-dl --clear-cache command allowed me to download everything else and to fix the problem. Thank you very much for the support!
Before closing the thread, I'd like to ask another question: since I also use gallery-dl for deviantart and since I've run the --clear-cache once already, will I have to regenerate the oauth for deviantart as well?

[mikf]

Yes, dA refresh token(s) become invalid whenever the cache gets deleted.
It'd probably be a good idea to add a way to only remove cache entries for a particular site by adding an argument to --clear-cache and make it possible to do something like gallery-dl --clear-cache instagram.

[Vishvamitra]

Yeah, adding an argument to the --clear-cache option would be lovely, indeed. What's strange, though, is that I didn't get the usual API responded with .... too many requests while I donwloaded some files from Deviantart yesterday; the program isn't allowing me to access premium content on DeviantArt, though.

[rufi-san]

first of all sorry for my very bad english, it´s not my first languaje

second, i very very verrry noob on this, i dont now anything in programing, i use window 10 and i only learn how to do the simple comand like cd/ gallery-dl.exe instagram (da, twitter, etc), i now only that

three i have the same issue withe [instagram][error] HTTP redirect to login page (https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/) , so i made another acount, but the solution no longer avaiable and i have againe the same problem, i cant create another acount in instagram and i have tried the --clear-cache thing and still nothing, so, please, can someane helpe me, i repeat, i realy noob on this

thanks and sorry for the problems, i hope someone can help me

edit: yes, i have the last version of the gallery-dl.exe for window

[github-account1111]

Getting the same error immediately even though I use my credentials. --clear-cache didn't fix the issue. Both sleep and sleep-request are set to 10 for the instagram category.

Edit: Never mind, running --clear-cache -c .\gallery_dl.conf instead fixed the problem.

[rufi-san]

Getting the same error immediately even though I use my credentials. --clear-cache didn't fix the issue. Both sleep and sleep-request are set to 10 for the instagram category.

Edit: Never mind, running --clear-cache -c .\gallery_dl.conf instead fixed the problem.

i have done that but dont resolve my problem, please, can you help me, i dont now what to do

[github-account1111]

The part after -c is your config file's location. Mine just happens to be in the same directory as the program (I set it that way). Yours can be in a different location.

[rufi-san]

The part after -c is your config file's location. Mine just happens to be in the same directory as the program (I set it that way). Yours can be in a different location.

Ir I put it in another location, then my problem con be fixet? Because I Don't now ir the program gonna work if I change the location

[github-account1111]

No, all I said is if your config file's location is different from the default one (which is the case for me), you need to enter it manually after the -c flag.

[rufi-san]

No, all I said is if your config file's location is different from the default one (which is the case for me), you need to enter it manually after the -c flag.

i put the gallery-dl in another location but i dont now how to put the comand, usually i do this

cd/
gallery-dl.exe (insert instagram link)

but in the new location i dont now what comand to add

[phanirithvij]

For me, the cookies.txt for Instagram expired. Had to re-enter the cookies.txt contents.
I had "instagram" : { "cookies" : "/path/to/cookies.txt" } in the config.json
Got the new cookies as usual from Export cookies.txt chrome extension.

[Hrxn]

It's normal that (some) cookies expire..

By the way, I think this issue can be closed?

[freshmre]

For those who are not logged in; logging in removes the error which you can do using gallery-dl -u <username> -p <password> <link>

[indianairlines]

I used gallery-dl -u <username> -p <password> <link> but got "400 Bad Request' for 'https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/ajax/" - I wonder why?

[mikf]

@indianairlines you don't seem to be the only one (#2480), but I can still successfully login into my account. Output of --write-pages would/might be helpful.

[cobra4u]

IT says the given below but how to use -o cursor?

Use '-o cursor=QVFBTWVJeW9fR3QyZG9GdzVvNndHbGZsRC1WUkttcHExcXh2VUluYVBaOUV5bHBCT1R3WTNORGlJQy1wSThOMVJFRDBnMUNmNjdQR1NLWTNqX0plYTNHcQ==' to continue downloading from the current position