Unable to download single posts from instagram.

[furycd001]

HI Guys..

I'm currently facing an issue with gallery-dl that when I provide a profile URL to gallery-dl, it downloads the entire profile without any problems. However, when I attempt to pass a URL for a single post; it often results in the following error:

[instagram][error] HttpError: '400 Bad Request' for 'https://www.instagram.com/api/v1/media/1139205965396112794886572869044439696693203290795285138510044763746868/info/'

My config.json is configured as follows:

{
    "extractor": {
        "instagram": {
            "cookies": "/path/to/instagram_cookies.txt",
            "sessionid": "mytotallyuniquesessionid0000"
        }
    }
}

The issue I'm facing is that I don't wish to download entire profiles when I might only be interested in a single post or maybe even a few. Is there anyone who could kindly assist? Your help would be greatly appreciated, and thank you in advance for taking the time to read and respond....

[mikf]

1139205965396112794886572869044439696693203290795285138510044763746868

That's a suspiciously long numeric ID.
What's the shortcode or the actual URL for this post?

Converting this number to a shortcode gives https://www.instagram.com/p/CpBaEy6o2u_a01Tq-2qyiQz8ATdSFHWm94vK3I0/, but that also doesn't work in a browser.

[furycd001]

1139205965396112794886572869044439696693203290795285138510044763746868

That's a suspiciously long numeric ID. What's the shortcode or the actual URL for this post?

Here's a full link to a post that I'm experiencing the problem with. This post gives me exactly the same error output....

https://www.instagram.com/p/ChaJ-q_odgvm0fnelsnCzIG_R-aFgRPBDfKSbk0/

I should mention that their profile is private, but I am friends with them & can see their profile just fine. This also happens with multiple other profiles as well, so it's not limited to just this one profile....

[mikf]

You could try using a different API endpoint (-o api=graphql), although that will only download medium-resolution images.

Using a shorter shortcode might also somehow make it work. Maybe try https://www.instagram.com/p/ChaJ-q_odgv/ as URL instead of the full link.

[furycd001]

https://www.instagram.com/p/ChaJ-q_odgv

I tried using a shorter shortcode, but it always seems to redirect me to a "Something went wrong" page. I tried changing the api point like you suggested & everything now downloads successfully. Downloading at medium-resolution isn't always the best, but at least it works. Thank you for your help :)