Could add another option to export the results as an excel file? First coloumn with user id, and second one with the username

Originally posted by @rabe398 in #3 (comment)

@Snbig Thanks for the quick update.
Yep, there’s a limit on instagrap api calls, and I’m not sure what is it.
You can try to call some functions 2000 times without timeout, and you will get a messege from instagram “ an error occured please try again later”.
By the way, could add anothet option to export the results as an excel file? First coloumn with user id, and second one with the username

Originally posted by @rabe398 in #3 (comment)

Thanks so much for creating this tool!

The script stopped working I things changes in their page.

I tried to explain to the Instaloader devs that it might be useful to have the option to use a userID as input since the ID never changes.

As of right now we still have to convert ids and names completely manually etc.

instaloader/instaloader#325

Can you made a module to use from other scripts?

Does anyone have a working list of user agents for https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/{userid}/info/ API?
What response code and message it gives us when API limit exceed?

Hi.

I'm new to programming and i couldnt understand how to run program with pycharm

Can you explain it briefly? What should I do to run?

C:\Users\cyb3r>python InstaTracker.py -i 7334396907
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\cyb3r\InstaTracker.py", line 130, in
main()
File "C:\Users\cyb3r\InstaTracker.py", line 113, in main
username = useridToUsername(args.id)
File "C:\Users\cyb3r\InstaTracker.py", line 59, in useridToUsername
if json.loads(r).get("status") != 'ok':
File "C:\Users\cyb3r\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\json_init_.py", line 346, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "C:\Users\cyb3r\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "C:\Users\cyb3r\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\json\decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

I have encounter with this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dell\Desktop\InstaTrack-master\InstaTracker.py", line 136, in <module>
    main()
  File "C:\Users\dell\Desktop\InstaTrack-master\InstaTracker.py", line 119, in main
    username = useridToUsername(args.id)
  File "C:\Users\dell\Desktop\InstaTrack-master\InstaTracker.py", line 63, in useridToUsername
    j = json.loads(r.text)
  File "C:\Python39\lib\json\__init__.py", line 346, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "C:\Python39\lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "C:\Python39\lib\json\decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

when I try to convert id to username. (convert username to id is fine)
Is there anybody encounter with this?
Seems something wrong with json.loads

When nicknames with periods, underscores and other symbols are found in a text document, they are skipped by the script.

I get the following error when running useridToUsername; I traced it to this line in getTokens:

query_hash = re.findall(r'{value:!0});(?:var|const|let) .="([0-9a-f]{32})"', r)[0]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "InstaTracker.py", line 45, in
print(useridToUsername("<>"))
File "InstaTracker.py", line 24, in useridToUsername
rhx_gis = json.loads(re.compile('window._sharedData = ({.*?});', re.DOTALL).search(r1).group(1))['rhx_gis']
KeyError: 'rhx_gis'

Hi,
Could you add an argument so it would be possible to pass a .txt file containing id numbers of instagram users (one in each line) ?
The script would produce a .txt of usernames

Could you please update it seems to be not working?
If you also can update you readme.MD explaining how to use please.

python InstaTracker.py -i 534895514

comes back with

File "InstaTracker.py", line 138, in
main()
File "InstaTracker.py", line 121, in main
username = useridToUsername(args.id)
File "InstaTracker.py", line 58, in useridToUsername
checkTokens()
File "InstaTracker.py", line 18, in checkTokens
getTokens()
File "InstaTracker.py", line 28, in getTokens
query_hash = re.findall(r'{value:!0});const o="(.*?)"', r)[0]

python3 InstaTracker.py -i 47682547574
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ndf10/InstaTrack/InstaTracker.py", line 136, in
main()
File "/home/ndf10/InstaTrack/InstaTracker.py", line 119, in main
username = useridToUsername(args.id)
File "/home/ndf10/InstaTrack/InstaTracker.py", line 63, in useridToUsername
j = json.loads(r.text)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/json/init.py", line 346, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Hello,

The script stopped working possible due to Instagram changes in their page.

Running $ python3 InstaTracker.py -i <19 character UserID> gives the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\Instaloader\InstaTracker.py", line 138, in <module>
    main()
  File "E:\Instaloader\InstaTracker.py", line 121, in main
    username = useridToUsername(args.id)
  File "E:\Instaloader\InstaTracker.py", line 58, in useridToUsername
    checkTokens()
  File "E:\Instaloader\InstaTracker.py", line 18, in checkTokens
    getTokens()
  File "E:\Instaloader\InstaTracker.py", line 28, in getTokens
    query_hash = re.findall(r'{value:!0}\);var s=\"(.*?)\"', r)[0]
IndexError: list index out of range

I am running the program on Python3.8.

I am really sorry if I am doing something really stupid. I am not at all comfortabe with Python