500 Server Error: Internal Server Error for url: https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/bloks/apps/com.instagram.challenge.navigation.take_challenge/

[JackWalton1]

Hi, I successfully had a bot that could post listings from a real estate website. I tried to launch this bot via GitHub Actions (for CD/CI) and I began getting the challenge issues. My bot now requires a code and possibly a change of password, and definitely requires the user input of my password. I wrote some code that gets the code from my email (email_login.py) and I am now getting a 500 Server Error after it handles challenge, password change, and attempts to log in. If I run it the script after the password is "updated", I get the error that my password is incorrect, so the bot is not changing my password.

So my questions are:

1. Can I resolve this server side error, and should I interpret this as a problem with my code/a bad request? (Possibly because it doesn't actually change my IG password?)
2. I have tried reinstating my settings via 'bot.load_settings('./dump.json') ' (saved with 'bot.dump_settings('./dump.json')'). Should that resolve this issue once my bot can successfully log in again?

Code:

def challenge_code_handler(username, choice):
    if choice == ChallengeChoice.SMS:
        print("\nNever taught how to handle this (SMS challenge)")
        return False
    elif choice == ChallengeChoice.EMAIL:
        import email_login
        if len(email_login.codes) <= 0:
            print("\nNo code found in instagrapi_bot.py")
            return False
        else:
            print("\nCode was found in instagrapi_bot.py")
            return email_login.codes[0] #returns most recent login code from instagram
    return False

def change_password_handler(username):
    # Simple way to generate a random string
    chars = list("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890!&£@#")
    password = "".join(random.sample(chars, 10))
    file='./pass.txt' 
    with open(file, 'w') as filetowrite:
        filetowrite.write(password)
    return password

bot = Client()
ACCOUNT_USERNAME, ACCOUNT_PASSWORD = get_user_passw() #function returns user, pass via file reading
try: 
   # bot.dump_settings('./dump.json') ##saved device info for the one time
   bot.login(ACCOUNT_USERNAME, ACCOUNT_PASSWORD)
 except:
    bot.load_settings('./dump.json')
    bot.challenge_code_handler = challenge_code_handler #gets code from my email and is put into stdout?(is entered in)
    bot.change_password_handler = change_password_handler #changes password?
    bot.login(ACCOUNT_USERNAME, ACCOUNT_PASSWORD)
    bot.get_timeline_feed()

Error after challenge_code_handler enters verification code and I enter the password/password is "changed" by change_password_handler:

Exception has occurred: ClientError
500 Server Error: Internal Server Error for url: https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/bloks/apps/com.instagram.challenge.navigation.take_challenge/

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:


During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:


During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

  File "/Users/jackwalton/Code/InstagramBot/instagrapi_bot.py", line 109, in <module>
    bot.login(ACCOUNT_USERNAME, ACCOUNT_PASSWORD)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:


During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:


During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:


During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

  File "/Users/jackwalton/Code/InstagramBot/instagrapi_bot.py", line 113, in <module>
    bot.login(ACCOUNT_USERNAME, ACCOUNT_PASSWORD)

[JackWalton1]

resolved. Just made the password handler return my current password instead of attempting to change it.