Requests blocked after some time

[BlackPhoenix134]

We noticed that when running our script it works fine for about 1 or 2 minutes. Liking, commenting and following, we sleep randomly between 10-15 seconds between actions and sometimes 30 seconds between cycles.
Then suddenly we get the following error.
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/media/2973663574970573838_5911213600/comment/ File "/mnt/networkssd/share/socialmedia/account/scripts/libs/funcs/instagram.py", line 69, in comment return self.client.media_comment(media.id, text) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/mnt/networkssd/share/socialmedia/account/scripts/libs/instagrapi/mixins/comment.py", line 149, in media_comment result = self.private_request( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/mnt/networkssd/share/socialmedia/account/scripts/libs/instagrapi/mixins/private.py", line 461, in private_request raise e File "/mnt/networkssd/share/socialmedia/account/scripts/libs/instagrapi/mixins/private.py", line 446, in private_request self._send_private_request(endpoint, **kwargs) File "/mnt/networkssd/share/socialmedia/account/scripts/libs/instagrapi/mixins/private.py", line 337, in _send_private_request raise LoginRequired(response=e.response, **last_json) libs.framework.exceptions.EngageException: (EngageException(...), LoginRequired('login_required'))

This seems to block the session we save on the disk. It is blocked for further request and we have to create a new one. Any idea how to fix that? Maybe we have to use longer sleeps?

[adw0rd]

Your behavior is not human, you need to go to other pages (make other requests) as a user

[adw0rd]

Install charles or proxyman, launch the instagram app and perform actions and you will see what requests are sent by your actions

https://adw0rd.com/2020/3/26/sniffing-instagram-charles-proxy/en/

[BlackPhoenix134]

Ah thanks. We run it on proxies but never bothered with checking what is send. Thanks

[SK4P3]

Hi @adw0rd I'm working together with @BlackPhoenix134 and we have been trying to get the SSL proxy to work for Instagram, however without success.
I tried following your guide but I get the Error 'SSL handshake with client failed - The client supported protocol versions [TLSv1.3, (D)TLS--5.26] are not accepted by server preferences [TLS12]' in Charles Proxy (same in MITM Proxy), although all the settings in Instagram and the proxy should be right.

I even went as far as patching the decompiled source code libs.so with IDA but they change that up quite a lot from version to version so I also hit a wall there. Also tried to rebuild the android app with modified network_security.xml but that also doesn't work.

Am I doing something wrong in the cert settings? Is the proxy method still working for you?

[SK4P3]

fixed it; ill make a writeup tomorrow and add it here

[SK4P3]

posted it here