[BUG]

[drogba72]

Hi everyone,

Describe the bug
I'm trying to get user_id from a target

cl = Client()
user_id = cl.user_id_from_username(target)

but I get this error :

Traitement du follower: user
Status 201: JSONDecodeError in public_request (url=https://www.instagram.com/user/?__a=1&__d=dis) >>>
Status 201: JSONDecodeError in public_request (url=https://www.instagram.com/user/?__a=1&__d=dis) >>>
Status 201: JSONDecodeError in public_request (url=https://www.instagram.com/user/?__a=1&__d=dis) >>>

please, what's wrong ?

Regards ;)

[becauseimnoob]

@subzeroid

web api completely removed. This url is not up to date, a developer can look at a sample work here to give an idea https://scrapfly.io/blog/how-to-scrape-instagram/

import json
import httpx

client = httpx.Client(
    headers={
        # this is internal ID of an instegram backend app. It doesn't change often.
        "x-ig-app-id": "936619743392459",
        # use browser-like features
        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36",
        "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9,ru;q=0.8",
        "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
        "Accept": "*/*",
    }
)


def scrape_user(username: str):
    """Scrape Instagram user's data"""
    result = client.get(
        f"https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/web_profile_info/?username={username}",
    )
    data = json.loads(result.content)
    return data["data"]["user"]

print(scrape_user("google"))