429 [Too Many Requests] from Instagram

[welcomemax]

On one of my sites, I get 429 error on requests to ACCOUNT_PAGE or ACCOUNT_JSON_INFO. Other queries pass without problems. Very similar to ban.
Has anyone else come across?
Is there another way to get user_id?

[liamka]

Same

Response code is 429

[th4deu]

They changed the way you pass the variables.
Now there's a part of the URI that needs to be sent in json format, also, there's a new var called query_hash being sent together.

I adapted the URL in my code for that and it worked fine.

[aik27]

@th4deu code example, please.

[qunn]

@th4deu up question, please example code, where get query_hash or how generate?

[qunn]

may be use url https://www.instagram.com/p/{shotcode}/?__a=1 instead of https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_id=17852405266163336&shortcode={code}&first=10&after=10 for get comments and likes??

Tests shows what if many query to link 2, anytime response rate limit, but link 1 not noticed

[th4deu]

@aik27 and @qunn , they just replaced the "query_id" for "query_hash".
Since I've been testing, its value doesn't change. Here's an example of the called URI (i'm using my own method to call it):

$url_graph = 'https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/'; $variables = rawurlencode('{"shortcode":"'.$code.'", "first":"1000", "after": "'.$nextPageCode'"}'); $url_graph_query = $url_graph . '?query_hash=33ba35852cb50da46f5b5e889df7d159&variables='.$variables';

It'll generate a code like this: https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_hash=33ba35852cb50da46f5b5e889df7d159&variables=%7B%22shortcode%22%3A%22BfwTKhUl9v7%22%2C%22first%22%3A22%2C%22after%22%3A%22AQC3SITifpbp7D8eeB4wVJozUXAe_ZRkCCLJ6Th4H-bVshhNiMO_h0kotBT2Tvdud5q9MCalawXV5IYqCBOkrgOatfbOmhq0ocPBHcScVGt-9g%22%7D

Anyway, i've been monitoring my website calls to Instagram "API" yesterday and the rate limit is still being applied, but, since there are a lot of API calls, I'm studying the idea of changing the server's IP each hour to avoid the rate limit. Its limit is being renewed each hour.

[qunn]

@th4deu Thank you! Your solution a little better, i'm took note your solution, but now i replace in Endpoints.php COMMENTS_BEFORE_COMMENT_ID_BY_CODE old url to my https://www.instagram.com/p/{{shortcode}}/?__a=1 and other code fix, result no problem, after 30 minutes many queries no rate limits.

And my solution for change IP, cURL + proxy socks5 or ipv6, and i serializend array to proxy, i have 10 in list, and random i get proxy, if 429 i take next in array, and this action in round by while do

[th4deu]

@qunn, for the first query your endpoint works, but how are you doing for the other ones?

Because for the first query, it was already working for me, but the second one ahead was giving me rate limit error after some queries.

[qunn]

@th4deu this url i only use for function getMediaCommentsByCode() in Instagram.php, and i modified function where $jsonResponse['data'] to $jsonResponse['graphql'] and other replace where use ['data'] in this function, and i change in Endpoints.php const COMMENTS_BEFORE_COMMENT_ID_BY_CODE to this url https://www.instagram.com/p/{{shortcode}}/?__a=1

It's all what i do, and work is fine, no rate limits and i not use proxyes more 4 hours))) may be i don't understand your question, what you mean first query, this function or other function?

[RainGrid]

@qunn , you can only take a limited number of comments from the first query. has_next_page == true means that the post has more comments than can be taken from the 1st query.

[qunn]

@RainGrid, yes, you right, i try find solutions...) but now this what I need for my project, I'm not stop seek solution for more queries, but this work without 429 limit)

[adiv-phpian]

There's a way to avoid rate limit, I can able to retrieve 100K likes without any problem. All we need to do is send some prior requests to Instagram to avoid getting rate limit error.

[imkimchi]

@muthu-kc what do you exactly mean by sending prior requests? do you just send request to see if response would be 429 and wait for some minutes to send again?

[adiv-phpian]

@imkimchi You need to use mobile api cookies with web api. by that way you can avoid rate limits.

[imkimchi]

@muthu-kc that's interesting! how can I get mobile api cookies on pc though?

[tawfek]

@imkimchi You need to use mobile api cookies with web api. by that way you can avoid rate limits.

how can i use mobile api cookies and use it with web api endpoint
do u mean some thing like this or what ?
$instagram->setUserAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; Windows Phone 8.1; Android 4.0; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; NOKIA; 909) like iPhone OS 7_0_3 Mac OS X AppleWebKit/537 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537");