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Question about api #12

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afterdelight opened this issue Feb 26, 2022 · 2 comments
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Question about api #12

afterdelight opened this issue Feb 26, 2022 · 2 comments

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@afterdelight
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Does this tool uses https://github.com/ping/instagram_private_api?
How many posts can i scrape before i get error 429 with this tool?
Thank you.

@siongui
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siongui commented Feb 26, 2022

API rate limiting depends on Instagram servers, not something we can do on client side. three or four years there are almost no rate limiting and you never got 429 at that time. but now it is easy to get 429. it's not about the tools, it's about how Instagram sets API rate limiting.

@afterdelight
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I used two tools
https://github.com/dvingerh/PyInstaStories
and
instaloader

the first one i never get 429 error with multiple account and no delay in download requests
with instaloader i got 429 error just from downloading stories from multiple accounts. i have to set request delay when using instaloader to avoid 429 error. the only reason i use instaloader its because it supports post download. I think instaloader method is spamming unneeded request too much while the other tool dont.

Does your tool use api method from https://github.com/ping/instagram_private_api like PyInstaStories does?

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