not a bug report, probably my bad.

[MattPChoy]

Hi, trying to scrape and I keep getting this warning:

MissingCookiesWarning: Request header does not contain cookies! It's recommended you pass at least a valid sessionid otherwise Instagram will likely redirect you to their login page.
  warnings.warn(

Despite having a headers variable:

headers = {
    "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA58N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Mobile Safari/537.36 Edg/87.0.664.57",
    "cookie": "sessionid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;"
}

And using it whenever I use the *.scrape() method

[tarob0ba]

I'll take a look at this.

[tarob0ba]

Strange- it shouldn't (in practice) be raising a KeyError, since the "cookie" key is present in the dictionary. Even stranger, when I copy the problematic code and make a quick script to test it, it functions properly.

[MattPChoy]

@beckettnormington Thanks for replying, how can I aid in this debugging process? Super weird error!

[MattPChoy]

Also, just clarification, when I scrape using the *.scrape(headers=headers) method, it gets an error. However, when I scrape using *.scrape() it works for a bit (before Instagram redirects me to the login page)

[tarob0ba]

Seems like it might be relating to hard coding your session ID. While this shouldn’t be happening, you might have to use an f-string with a variable. Sorry for the suboptimal solution and I’m going to look into this further.

ping: @chris-greening

Hacky example (copy and pasted from #78):

from instascrape import *

session_id = '' # Your session ID - http://valvepress.com/how-to-get-instagram-session-cookie/

google = Profile('https://www.instagram.com/google/')

headers = {"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA58N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Mobile Safari/537.36 Edg/87.0.664.57",
           "cookie": f"sessionid={session_id};"}

google.scrape(headers=headers)

print(google.followers)

[MattPChoy]

@chrisgreening Thanks mate for the reply. Not sure if you'll get this but we'll see what happens. I've found that using Selenium resolved this error and I don't have to worry about session ids changing. I've encountered the following error though (Error #86)

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On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 11:31 AM Beckett Normington ***@***.***> wrote: Seems like it might be relating to hard coding your session ID. While this shouldn’t be happening, you might have to use an f-string with a variable. Sorry for the suboptimal solution and I’m going to look into this further. ping: @chris-greening <https://github.com/chris-greening> Hacky example (copy and pasted from #78 <#78>): from instascrape import * session_id = '' # Your session ID - http://valvepress.com/how-to-get-instagram-session-cookie/ google = Profile('https://www.instagram.com/google/') headers = {"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA58N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Mobile Safari/537.36 Edg/87.0.664.57", "cookie": f"sessionid={session_id};"} google.scrape(headers=headers) print(google.followers) — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#85 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AMHGRXMNK6PORWVPNTPJEMDS5NC7JANCNFSM4XAAPGVQ> .