Contacts: Instagram Profile Images Not Scraped

[Ge0rg3]

_This is very similar to #2012, so please check that one out first :)_

Describe the bug

When trying to use the "Get from instagram" button to assign profile photos from a twitter link, the user is shown a "Avatar download failed" error message, and the logs show the following:

Exception: Argument 1 passed to OC\Http\Client\Client::get() must be of the type string, null given, called in /var/www/nextcloud/apps/contacts/lib/Service/SocialApiService.php on line 213

I think this may be because Instagram now requires a valid session to view accounts, so I'm not sure how we can fix this without an API key.

Example curl

curl -i -L https://www.instagram.com/barackobama/?__a=1 -H "User-Agent: Googlebot/2.1"

Please see how only the login screen is returned.

[call-me-matt]

I thought this is what happens after a certain amount of requests, but I am not sure. Anyways, not a good state.
When I execute the curl above from my computer, the first attempt returns the desired page, while a second execution shortly after receives a 302 to the login page already!
Ideas very welcome...

[skjnldsv]

@Ge0rg3 can you confirmed it works again after some time?

[Ge0rg3]

Nope, never works for me, always just returns the login page instead.

[call-me-matt]

Maybe we can follow the discussion here?
https://gist.github.com/cosmocatalano/4544576
So far, no solution to this :cry:

[Ge0rg3]

Yep too bad, maybe we should disable the option until a workaround is found in future?

[call-me-matt]

Either that, or we add a setting to insert ones account details?

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[call-me-matt]

@Ge0rg3 I suppose you have already tried adding a user agent (as you have done in #2012)? For me, it works more reliable with that.

[Ge0rg3]

Yeah I think it helped slightly, but same issue after 2 or so reqs.

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