Can't download Instagram videos

[elpresti]

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Can't download Instagram videos with last version of Youtube-DL. Example:

c:\Software\youtube-dl>youtube-dl.exe --verbose https://www.instagram.com/nypost
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.instagram.com/nypost']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.03.20
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.16299
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[instagram:user] nypost: Downloading JSON metadata
[download] Downloading playlist: nypost
[instagram:user] 225193095: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 502: Bad Gateway (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue o
n https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call yo
utube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpbt_jbnlh\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", lin
e 519, in _request_webpage
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpbt_jbnlh\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2199,
in urlopen
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_default

c:\Software\youtube-dl>

[elpresti]

Sorry for duplicating. I can't find the original ticket, which is?

[elpresti]

Can you tell me which is the solution to this problem please? Thanks in advance!

[dstftw]

Wait for the next release.