How to login into Instagram using Python Requests?-CodePudding

I am using the following code to make a Python Request to login into my Instagram account. I am running this on local.

import requests
from datetime import datetime
import re
from pprint import pprint
import json


time = int(datetime.now().timestamp())
link = 'https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/'
login_url = f"https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/ajax/"

payload = {
    'username': 'username',
    'enc_password': 'PWD_INSTAGRAM_BROWSER:0:{time}:password',
    'queryParams': "{}",
    'optIntoOneTap': 'false',
    'stopDeletionNonce': "", 
    'trustedDeviceRecords': "{}"
}


response = requests.get(link)
csrf = response.cookies['csrftoken']
print(csrf)

response = requests.post(login_url, data=payload, headers={
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.120 Safari/537.36",
    "X-Xequested-Xith": "XMLHttpRequest",
    "Referer": "https://www.instagram.com/",
    "X-CSRFtoken": csrf,
    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
    "Host": "www.instagram.com",
    "Origin": "https://www.instagram.com"
})

response_json = json.loads(response.text)
pprint(response_json)

The response I receive after running the above code shows that I request is not authenticated:

{'authenticated': False, 'status': 'ok', 'user': True}

How can I login to Instagram using requests? Is there an updated method?

CodePudding user response：

I don't think you can access Instagram with only requests AFAIK.
Last time I tried, I'd to create an app within the facebook developer account and make an accesstoken from the Facebook / Instagram Graph API to access Instagram and make login stuffs. With that, you can not only login to your account but also you can post contents from that.

Long story short, refer Instagram Graph API and this should get your job done!

CodePudding user response：

In general, these use cases lend themselves perfectly for selenium, scrapy, playwright or puppeteer. I do not have an instagram account, so I don't know if this works, but in theory it might return a valid response:

import requests

cookies = {
    'csrftoken': '9e7U8qRNqAbazRC0kwrRgyN2okh1kihx',
    'mid': 'YsM1_AALAAEG2fGCvkPXE5DVlJD0',
    'ig_did': '494394E2-A583-4F01-BC32-5E4344FE2C4D',
}

headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0',
    'Accept': '*/*',
    'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5',
    # 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
    'X-CSRFToken': '9e7U8qRNqAbazRC0kwrRgyN2okh1kihx',
    'X-Instagram-AJAX': 'c6412f1b1b7b',
    'X-IG-App-ID': '936619743392459',
    'X-ASBD-ID': '198387',
    'X-IG-WWW-Claim': '0',
    'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest',
    'Origin': 'https://www.instagram.com',
    'DNT': '1',
    'Connection': 'keep-alive',
    'Referer': 'https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/?',
    # Requests sorts cookies= alphabetically
    # 'Cookie': 'csrftoken=9e7U8qRNqAbazRC0kwrRgyN2okh1kihx; mid=YsM1_AALAAEG2fGCvkPXE5DVlJD0; ig_did=494394E2-A583-4F01-BC32-5E4344FE2C4D',
    'Sec-Fetch-Dest': 'empty',
    'Sec-Fetch-Mode': 'cors',
    'Sec-Fetch-Site': 'same-origin',
    # Requests doesn't support trailers
    # 'TE': 'trailers',
}

data = {
    'enc_password': '#PWD_INSTAGRAM_BROWSER:10:1656960533:ARxQAMMwb3Yd6w3UdaFGt0Q3mTZ7lMDJHHmZFLaGEfQahXJOTxqb35Q/ZGC3B70DxZRhKcnaf3xImXyL7EFseRF/yZG4dvauui/LzLU7oAHK3rYHSYsjPjQTham/5DFXq6m4foqB5fIiJoChT ng58EDUkFA1A==',
    'username': '[email protected]',
    'queryParams': '{}',
    'optIntoOneTap': 'false',
    'stopDeletionNonce': '',
    'trustedDeviceRecords': '{}',
}

response = requests.post('https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/ajax/', cookies=cookies, headers=headers, data=data)

If you run into security issues, try the same but with cloudscraper instead of requests library.