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Discussion on: Scrape data from Instagram with instascrape and Python

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Vagner Belfort • Edited

Hi Chis, how are you?

I am trying to run your tutorials but I have an error could you help me?

i.ibb.co/52DX7hN/Screenshot-from-2...

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Chris Greening

Hey Vagner! That's an error I'm working on literally as we speak. I think Instagram tightened their restrictions overnight or something, I woke up to this error as well. I think what's happening is every GET request is being returned a 429 HTTP status code. I'm adding more robust headers to the requests.get calls that instascrape makes and it seems to have fixed the problem so check the officical repository later today for the 1.4.0 release and then reinstall from PyPI. Thanks for the patience!

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Chris Greening

Okay, 1.4.0 is live, go try that out and let me know if that works for you!