Instagram-private-api: ig.feed.accountFollowers does not yield correct followers list when requesting on another accounnt

[khalilacheche]

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Description

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Hello, it seems that I'm having an issue while trying to get the full followers list of an account, from a different account.
I used the items() function to retrieve the data in a while loop that checks if there's more availbale data.
When I check the resulting followers list, I get the correct number of followers (length of the items array), however, when I inspect the list elements, I get different results from call to call (whilst being sure there are no updates on the real followers list on instagram), with duplicate usernames in the list.
However, this issue doesn't appear when I user this same method to check the followers list of the same account.
I tried setting the maxId manually, as I thought there might be an issue with pagination, but it doesn't seem to solve the problem.
I don't know if this is a bug, or if I'm not using something the right way, so if you could help me, that would be awesome :) !

Code

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  const ig = new IgApiClient();
  ig.state.generateDevice(*username*);
  //ig.state.proxyUrl = process.env.IG_PROXY;
  const auth = await ig.account.login(*username*, *password*);
  const followersFeed = ig.feed.accountFollowers(*different account pk*);
  var items = []
  do{
    const a  = await followersFeed.items();
    items = items.concat(a)
  }while(followersFeed.isMoreAvailable())

[jesusvallez]

Same problem here!

My code:

import { AccountFollowersFeedResponseUsersItem, IgApiClient } from 'instagram-private-api'

async function getFollowers(ig: IgApiClient, id: number) {
  let followers = ig.feed.accountFollowers(id)
  let result: AccountFollowersFeedResponseUsersItem[] = []
  let currentPage: AccountFollowersFeedResponseUsersItem[] = []

  do {
    currentPage = await followers.items()
    result = [...result, ...currentPage]
  } while (followers.isMoreAvailable())

  return result
}

;(async () => {
  const ig = new IgApiClient()
  const auth = await login(ig, IG_USERNAME, IG_PASSWORD)

  if (auth) {
    const userToStalk = 'xxxx'
    const id = await ig.user.getIdByUsername(userToStalk)
    const followersResults = await getFollowers(ig, id)
  }
})()

[Nerixyz]

I don't know if this is a bug

It may be a bug, but probably not with this library. Kepp in mind, it _just_ returns the data Instagram returns. It's probably hard to count in the app, but when looking through the requests of the app, try counting the items. You'll probably find the same issue. So this library can't do much about this.

[jesusvallez]

It may be a bug, but probably not with this library. Kepp in mind, it _just_ returns the data Instagram returns. It's probably hard to count in the app, but when looking through the requests of the app, try counting the items. You'll probably find the same issue. So this library can't do much about this.

The number of followers is correct but when I list users... some are duplicated

EDIT:
@khalilacheche, dirty workaround:

  let iterator = 1
  const times = 3
  let followersResultsLength = 0
  let followersResults: string[] = []

  do {
    const rawData = await getFollowers(ig, idToStalk)
    const rawDataName = rawData.map((user) => user.username).sort()
    followersResultsLength = rawData.length
    followersResults = [...followersResults, ...rawDataName]
    iterator++
  } while (iterator <= times)

  followersResults = followersResults.filter((e, i, a) => a.indexOf(e) === i)
  followersResultsLength === followersResults.length ? console.log('DONE') : console.log('FAIL')