Instagram Bridge failed with error 500

[masterall9]

Error message: Unable to find username in search result. Query string: action=display&bridge=Instagram&context=Username&u=verejaniurie&media_type=all&format=Html Version: dev.2020-11-10

[redbullpeter]

I'm experiencing the same issue on version: dev.2021-04-25

[sal0max]

Likely the same issue as described in #1617

TL;DR: Instagram (partially) blocked the IP address your instance of RSS Bridge runs from.

A workaround seems to manually open https://www.instagram.com/web/search/topsearch/?query={username} (this is, what the Instagram Bridge does internally), and get the pk value of the user you are interested in.

Enter this user id in RSS Bridge, instead of the username, when generating your feed.

e.g. https://www.instagram.com/web/search/topsearch/?query=zuck -> 314216 is what you are looking for.

However, there still can be some issues, like images not showing up, all caused by the banned IP address.

[dvikan]

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/issues/1891

[tio-trom]

Same error here. Is there a way to add some proxy services for this addon? Or the RSS Bridge in general?

[dvikan]

well instagram is aggressive towards bots. also unable to reproduce this