I am getting "graphql Error" while fetching metaData of videos posts using instalooter 2.4.4.

[Waqas1o1]

I can't say for sure why this error is coming but it seems like it accounts problem.
I am trying to run the following script from python 3.10.0

obj = HashtagLooter(tag, dump_only=True)
obj.download_videos(f'downloads/{tag}', media_count=10, new_only=self.appendNewOnly) 

Then the Error Rised

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Muhamad Waqas\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\threading.py", line 973, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "F:\TECHNOVETIVE\Automation Media\Backend\instagrame\utils.py", line 66, in run
obj.download_videos(
File "F:\TECHNOVETIVE\Automation Media\Backend\env\lib\site-packages\instalooter\looters.py", line 395, in download_videos
return self.download(
File "F:\TECHNOVETIVE\Automation Media\Backend\env\lib\site-packages\instalooter\looters.py", line 469, in download
medias_queued = self._fill_media_queue(
File "F:\TECHNOVETIVE\Automation Media\Backend\env\lib\site-packages\instalooter\looters.py", line 620, in _fill_media_queue
media = self.get_post_info(media['shortcode'])
File "F:\TECHNOVETIVE\Automation Media\Backend\env\lib\site-packages\instalooter\looters.py", line 350, in get_post_info
if 'graphql' in data['entry_data']['PostPage'][0]:
KeyError: 'PostPage'

[richieadler]

Same here, and also for pictures.

[ghost]

Getting graphql errors here too.

2022-01-26 08:27:51 $user instalooter.cli[6048] NOTICE Starting download of `xxxx`
2022-01-26 08:27:55 $user instalooter.cli[6048] CRITICAL 'graphql'

[FilipJanitor]

It seems like instagram now loads "PostPage" contents dynamically so a simple request to https://www.instagram.com/p/XXXXXX/ will not contain the required data

[Lxand3r]

It seems like instagram now loads "PostPage" contents dynamically so a simple request to https://www.instagram.com/p/XXXXXX/ will not contain the required data

yeah do you think that there is any way to work around that

[zambetti]

I'm also getting those with the comment scraping function, have been for a little over a week

    info = looter.get_post_info(media['shortcode'])
  File "/Library/Python/3.8/site-packages/instalooter/looters.py", line 355, in get_post_info
    return data['graphql']['shortcode_media']
KeyError: 'graphql'

This is correct. If you comment out the offending line (looters.py line 355) and print data, you can see that the data structure returned from instagram has changed (no more 'graphql' or 'shortcode_media'). This sloppy hack (below) prints the new data structure and got it kinda unstuck by mapping the new 'media_type' to the old '__typename', but it failed elsewhere later on.

#return data['graphql']['shortcode_media']
print(data)
result = dict();
result['shortcode'] = data['items'][0]['code']
result['id'] = data['items'][0]['pk']
result['__typename'] = "GraphSidecar"
if data['items'][0]['media_type'] == 1:
    result['__typename'] = "GraphImage"
if data['items'][0]['media_type'] == 2:
    result['__typename'] = "GraphVideo"
return result

It seems this application needs to be significantly re-written to be adapted to the new Instagram API, and it was not written in a modular way that abstracted the API to make it easily swappable.

[FilipJanitor]

It seems to be working again... But only temporarily - after a while the lazyloading kicked in again

[Ajit021]

Hey Anyone what the go through of the issue I am facing the issues

[cyphunk]

same issue. Implementing the work around from @zambettl results in:

KeyError: 'edge_sidecar_to_children'

[gree303]

debian 9 python 3.5 same issue