Instapy: errno 13 permission denied

[aku6640]

Expected Behavior

Current Behavior

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "custom.py", line 25, in
multi_logs=True)
File "/home/pi/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 165, in __init__
self.logger = self.get_instapy_logger(show_logs)
File "/home/pi/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 187, in get_instapy_logger
file_handler = logging.FileHandler('{}general.log'.format(self.logfolder))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 913, in __init__
StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 943, in _open
stream = open(self.baseFilename, self.mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/pi/InstaPy/logs/username/general.log'

I am getting this error, maybe someone could help out?

Possible Solution (optional)

InstaPy configuration

[uluQulu]

@aku6640,
Does your user accaunt have read/write privilege to that logs _folder_ and particularly general.log file in it?

[aku6640]

Hi uluQulu!

i have done chmod -R 777 InstaPy on the InstaPy directory, that should be enough?

[uluQulu]

@aku6640,
_I am not really familiar with Linux commands but Internet has lots of information on it to find easily_
It was just a suggestion, I am not very sure about that issue but also try to rename general.log to sth different, e.g., general_old.log

[aku6640]

I've changed the name to general_old.log but when i run python.custom.py it gives the same error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "custom.py", line 25, in
multi_logs=True)
File "/home/pi/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 165, in __init__
self.logger = self.get_instapy_logger(show_logs)
File "/home/pi/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 187, in get_instapy_logger
file_handler = logging.FileHandler('{}general.log'.format(self.logfolder))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 913, in __init__
StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 943, in _open
stream = open(self.baseFilename, self.mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/pi/InstaPy/logs/user/general.log'

[aku6640]

sudo python fixed the issue thanks again uluQ! Hope that it keeps working now and not stops after a while.

[uluQulu]

Is clear now @aku6640,
I think you can write a new alias for it to ease of typing

alias py="sudo python"

in your .profile (_for ksh, bash_) or .login (_for csh_) file