ahhh okay, so when you set login_first=False, Instagram is still redirecting to the login page automatically but instascrape is trying to start scrolling immediately which results in an empty list since there are no posts rendered on the page
to access dynamically rendered content like posts you're pretty much always gonna have to be logged in so it's best to leave login_first as True unless you're chaining scrapes and your webdriver is already logged in manually
amazing thank you! So I was able to get my first 10 posts no problem by specifying amount=10 but then I tried to do all ~500 pictures and after 232 pictures I came across this error:
ahhh okay, so when you set
login_first=False, Instagram is still redirecting to the login page automatically butinstascrapeis trying to start scrolling immediately which results in an empty list since there are no posts rendered on the pageto access dynamically rendered content like posts you're pretty much always gonna have to be logged in so it's best to leave
login_firstasTrueunless you're chaining scrapes and your webdriver is already logged in manuallyamazing thank you! So I was able to get my first 10 posts no problem by specifying amount=10 but then I tried to do all ~500 pictures and after 232 pictures I came across this error:
ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', OSError("(54, 'ECONNRESET')"))
Im guessing this means instagram blocked my request? Have you come across this issue?