Can't login with instabot

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I'm having problems with instabot. I want to upload an image but it gives me an error

My code:

bot = Bot()
bot.login(username=username, password=password)
bot.upload_photo(image,caption='title')

Error:

line 23, in <module> bot.login(username=username, password=password)
line 443, in login if self.api.login(**args) is False
line 240, in login self.load_uuid_and_cookie(load_cookie=use_cookie, load_uuid=use_uuid)
line 199, in load_uuid_and_cookie return load_uuid_and_cookie(self, load_uuid=load_uuid, load_cookie=load_cookie)
line 352, in load_uuid_and_cookie
cookie_username = self.cookie_dict["ds_user"]
KeyError: 'ds_user'
instagram python-3.x python
7 Answers

From what I understood the part that makes the cookie does not write details about the user. so I recommend deleting the the json file in the config directory at the start of your code:

import os 
import glob
cookie_del = glob.glob("config/*cookie.json")
os.remove(cookie_del[0])
user_127718950

It will work but you need to find the api_login.py file of instabot.

Then comment out the 3 lines of code (352, 353, 354)

# cookie_username = self.cookie_dict["ds_user"]
# assert cookie_username == self.username.lower()
# self.cookie_dict["urlgen"]

Don't worry it won't affect the performance of the code. I have checked most of its functions and they work completely fine.

user_152087700

I also faced the same error and tried many things from reinstalling instabot, logging out instagram from everydevice but didn't help.

But i found some answers on web for a similar error and it worked for me.

There is a config folder created in the same directory where your python file ran, just delete that folder whenever you receive this error.

This would help.

Edit 1 : Well, i dont think the whole folder needs to be deleted,it would have many text file and one JSON file , the JSON file only needs to be deleted. it would be starting with your Insta username and some more text ahead.

user_77471570

So the main problem here is the JSON file. All I did is to remove the file every time it is created. What I did:

from os import remove
remove("path of JSON file")
#remaining code
user_158791930

Since I used igbot locally, I needed to delete the <username>_uuid_and_cookie.json file under the igbot/config directory. Made the bot login back with a non-faulty session, and it worked.

user_44229080

Here if you delete the config file, then the bot will login every time to fix the error go to C:\Users\{Your computer username}\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Lib\site-packages\instabot\api/api_login.py

and comment the code:

cookie_username = self.cookie_dict["ds_user_id"]
assert cookie_username == self.username.lower()
self.cookie_dict["urlgen"]
user_163096600

Currently I resolved with this: Remove all cookies data from the instabot to renew the login and execute the code succesfully.

cookie_del = glob.glob("config/*cookie.json")
if cookie_del : os.remove(cookie_del[0])
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