InstaPy not liking pictures (wait a few minutes), liking manually works.

[Zettt]

Current Behavior

Right now InstaPy is unable to like pictures again. I'm assuming there's been an Xpath change again?
Firefox goes to the error page almost instantly,

Please wait a few minutes before you try again.

INFO [2019-08-23 06:19:46] [me]  Failed to get followers count of 'b'in_love_with_streetart''  ~empty list
INFO [2019-08-23 06:20:36] [me]  Failed to get following count of 'b'in_love_with_streetart''  ~empty list
INFO [2019-08-23 06:20:36] [me]  User: 'in_love_with_streetart'  |> followers: unknown  |> following: unknown  |> relationship ratio: unknown
ERROR [2019-08-23 06:20:38] [me]  ~cannot get number of posts for username
INFO [2019-08-23 06:20:38] [me]  ---> Sorry, couldn't check for number of posts of username

[Ebanchous]

I have the same issue. Maybe it is a ban of your IP, I do not know how to deal with this issue at the moment.

[Zettt]

As written, I can like manually in Firefox when it's running though InstaPy.

[A5ura69]

Same problem here :(
After a couple of hours of work I got this error:

I'm using this simple quickstart.py:

# imports
from instapy import InstaPy
from instapy.util import smart_run

# login credentials
insta_username = 'user'
insta_password = 'pass'

# get an InstaPy session!
# set headless_browser=True to run InstaPy in the background
session = InstaPy(username=insta_username,
                  password=insta_password,
                  headless_browser=False)

with smart_run(session):
    """ Activity flow """
    # general settings
    session.set_relationship_bounds(enabled=True,
                                      delimit_by_numbers=True,
                                       max_followers=15000,
                                        min_followers=45,
                                        min_following=50)

    session.like_by_tags(['tag1', 'tag2', 'tag3', 'tag4', 'tag5', 'tag6'], amount=100, interact=True)

The weird part is that i'm able to like posts with regular firefox browser logged with the same account, but instagram has temporary disabled the search function...
I can see the instagram main feed but can't search for tags or profiles...
I've even tried to delete the cookies, but the problem has not solved.

Someone can help?

[jamezun]

it happens to me too, it appears after a number of likes that i performed, i guess they disable our instagram when we reach to a certain limits of likes which the parameters might be different for every accounts..

[mikediachenko]

I had the same issue in past. It was due to IP blocking by Instagram.

_{Sent with GitHawk}

[Zettt]

I had the same issue in past. It was due to IP blocking by Instagram.

Then why does liking manually through the same browser work?

[Pangolino2a]

Like work manually with the same browser but on bot im blocked.... Please help !!!

[Knrd2]

Im gettin the same error:
Error
Please wait a few minutes before you try again.

What to do ?

[NooriP]

Same error here !

[orsi-dev]

same here, anyone knows how long it's the "ban" ?
it should be related to the account, i've got the same error using https proxy and different user-agent.

[CharlesCCC]

It seems like Instagram put lots of effort attacking automated solution like the InstaPy.
They must have some way to detect we are automating things, and so it blocked the activity.
@sionking used to did lots of research on that.

[meth0xy]

Same issue here. Hope there is a fix for that?

[meth0xy]

found out that clearing localStorage in Firefox let you visit sites again, but dont know how ling this works.

[turtlebking]

Same problem here :(
After a couple of hours of work I got this error:

I'm using this simple quickstart.py:

# imports
from instapy import InstaPy
from instapy.util import smart_run

# login credentials
insta_username = 'user'
insta_password = 'pass'

# get an InstaPy session!
# set headless_browser=True to run InstaPy in the background
session = InstaPy(username=insta_username,
                  password=insta_password,
                  headless_browser=False)

with smart_run(session):
    """ Activity flow """
    # general settings
    session.set_relationship_bounds(enabled=True,
                                      delimit_by_numbers=True,
                                       max_followers=15000,
                                        min_followers=45,
                                        min_following=50)

    session.like_by_tags(['tag1', 'tag2', 'tag3', 'tag4', 'tag5', 'tag6'], amount=100, interact=True)

The weird part is that i'm able to like posts with regular firefox browser logged with the same account, but instagram has temporary disabled the search function...
I can see the instagram main feed but can't search for tags or profiles...
I've even tried to delete the cookies, but the problem has not solved.

Someone can help?

it is a soft ban

[A5ura69]

Same problem here :(
After a couple of hours of work I got this error:

I'm using this simple quickstart.py:

# imports
from instapy import InstaPy
from instapy.util import smart_run

# login credentials
insta_username = 'user'
insta_password = 'pass'

# get an InstaPy session!
# set headless_browser=True to run InstaPy in the background
session = InstaPy(username=insta_username,
                  password=insta_password,
                  headless_browser=False)

with smart_run(session):
    """ Activity flow """
    # general settings
    session.set_relationship_bounds(enabled=True,
                                      delimit_by_numbers=True,
                                       max_followers=15000,
                                        min_followers=45,
                                        min_following=50)

    session.like_by_tags(['tag1', 'tag2', 'tag3', 'tag4', 'tag5', 'tag6'], amount=100, interact=True)

The weird part is that i'm able to like posts with regular firefox browser logged with the same account, but instagram has temporary disabled the search function...
I can see the instagram main feed but can't search for tags or profiles...
I've even tried to delete the cookies, but the problem has not solved.
Someone can help?

it is a soft ban

The problem is... how to avoid it? :/

[sunny744]

Same issue with my script as well. Did someone got a fix for this?

[Mormia]

I have that same problem. I don't have any problems on my phone, different browser, firefox browser. This problem only occurs when i run the program/script. And i don't think it's a soft ban. Because i only got this error after following 10-15 people with delay. Without like/comment also i don't use suspicious attractive instagram tags.

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[matheusgregorio]

this problem lasts how long?