Cookie not loading when downloading instagram videos

[radian462]

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I tried to download instagram videos with this code but the cookie does not load.

But with yt-dlp --cookies instagram_cookie.txt "https://www.instagram.com/p/C9SEsmYCx_M/?hl=ja" it does.
Is there something wrong with my code? If so, please let me know the solution.
Sorry if I have missed something.

from yt_dlp import YoutubeDL
import subprocess

def download_video(url):
    if url in ".m3u8":
        subprocess.run(f'ffmpeg -i {url} -c copy "%name%.mp4"', shell=True)
        print("m3u8ファイルをダウンロードました")
    else:
        ydl_opts = {
          'format': 'best[ext=mp4]',
          'outtmpl': '%(title)s.%(ext)s',
          'verbose': True,
        }

        if "instagram.com" in url:
            ydl_opts["cookies"] = "instagram_cookie.txt"
            print(ydl_opts)
            
        with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
            result = ydl.extract_info(url, download=True)
            file_path = ydl.prepare_filename(result)
            print(f"{file_path}をダウンロードました")
            
        return file_path

if __name__ == "__main__":
    download_video(input("URL:"))

Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem

• Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (yt-dlp -vU <your command line>)
• If using API, add 'verbose': True to YoutubeDL params instead
• Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below

Complete Verbose Output

URL:https://www.instagram.com/p/C9SEsmYCx_M/?hl=ja
{'format': 'best[ext=mp4]', 'outtmpl': '%(title)s.%(ext)s', 'verbose': True, 'cookies': 'instagram_cookie.txt'}
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version nightly@2024.07.13.232701 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds [150ecc45d] (pip) API
[debug] params: {'format': 'best[ext=mp4]', 'outtmpl': '%(title)s.%(ext)s', 'verbose': True, 'cookies': 'instagram_cookie.txt', 'compat_opts': set(), 'http_headers': {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4638.74 Safari/537.36', 'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8', 'Accept-Language': 'en-us,en;q=0.5', 'Sec-Fetch-Mode': 'navigate'}}
[debug] Python 3.10.14 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-6.5.0-1023-gcp-x86_64-with-glibc2.39 (OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024, glibc 2.39)
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.20.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.07.04, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.3, sqlite3-3.45.3, urllib3-2.2.2, websockets-12.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets
[debug] Loaded 1834 extractors
[Instagram] Extracting URL: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9SEsmYCx_M/?hl=ja
[Instagram] C9SEsmYCx_M: Setting up session
[Instagram] C9SEsmYCx_M: Downloading JSON metadata
WARNING: [Instagram] C9SEsmYCx_M: General metadata extraction failed (some metadata might be missing).
[Instagram] C9SEsmYCx_M: Downloading webpage
WARNING: [Instagram] unable to extract shared data; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
WARNING: [Instagram] Main webpage is locked behind the login page. Retrying with embed webpage (some metadata might be missing).
[Instagram] C9SEsmYCx_M: Downloading embed webpage
WARNING: [Instagram] unable to extract additional data; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
ERROR: [Instagram] C9SEsmYCx_M: Requested content is not available, rate-limit reached or login required. Use --cookies, --cookies-from-browser, --username and --password, --netrc-cmd, or --netrc (instagram) to provide account credentials
  File "/home/runner/moive-download-exe/.pythonlibs/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 740, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/home/runner/moive-download-exe/.pythonlibs/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/instagram.py", line 460, in _real_extract
    self.raise_login_required('Requested content is not available, rate-limit reached or login required')
  File "/home/runner/moive-download-exe/.pythonlibs/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1245, in raise_login_required
    raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=True)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/runner/moive-download-exe/.pythonlibs/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1622, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/runner/moive-download-exe/.pythonlibs/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1757, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/home/runner/moive-download-exe/.pythonlibs/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 740, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/home/runner/moive-download-exe/.pythonlibs/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/instagram.py", line 460, in _real_extract
    self.raise_login_required('Requested content is not available, rate-limit reached or login required')
  File "/home/runner/moive-download-exe/.pythonlibs/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1245, in raise_login_required
    raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=True)
yt_dlp.utils.ExtractorError: [Instagram] C9SEsmYCx_M: Requested content is not available, rate-limit reached or login required. Use --cookies, --cookies-from-browser, --username and --password, --netrc-cmd, or --netrc (instagram) to provide account credentials

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/runner/moive-download-exe/main.py", line 27, in <module>
    download_video(input("URL:"))
  File "/home/runner/moive-download-exe/main.py", line 20, in download_video
    result = ydl.extract_info(url, download=True)
  File "/home/runner/moive-download-exe/.pythonlibs/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1611, in extract_info
    return self.__extract_info(url, self.get_info_extractor(key), download, extra_info, process)
  File "/home/runner/moive-download-exe/.pythonlibs/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1640, in wrapper
    self.report_error(str(e), e.format_traceback())
  File "/home/runner/moive-download-exe/.pythonlibs/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1088, in report_error
    self.trouble(f'{self._format_err("ERROR:", self.Styles.ERROR)} {message}', *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/runner/moive-download-exe/.pythonlibs/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 1027, in trouble
    raise DownloadError(message, exc_info)
yt_dlp.utils.DownloadError: ERROR: [Instagram] C9SEsmYCx_M: Requested content is not available, rate-limit reached or login required. Use --cookies, --cookies-from-browser, --username and --password, --netrc-cmd, or --netrc (instagram) to provide account credentials

[seproDev]

The option is called cookiefile. You can use devscripts/cli_to_api.py to figure out how api options should be used.

[radian462]

Thank you. That downloaded fine.