Long Instagram Page Download Broken

[rudolfschmidt]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.02.16
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

> youtube-dl https://www.instagram.com/memes/ -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.instagram.com/memes/', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.02.16
[debug] Python version 3.8.1 (CPython) - Linux-5.5.4-arch1-1-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.2, ffprobe 4.2.2, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[instagram:user] memes: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: memes
[instagram:user] memes: Downloading JSON page 1
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 429: - (caused by <HTTPError 429: '-'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/home/rs/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 627, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/home/rs/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2237, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 640, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description

I guess Instagram blocks processes who try to download too many things in too fast. A workaround would be to download without downloading the entire json metadata first.