Exception has occurred: AttributeError 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

[samuelbraun04]

PROBLEM DETAILS:

I'm getting the following error (full traceback lower in issue):

Exception has occurred: AttributeError
'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

at the commented line in my code:

from instalooter.looters import ProfileLooter
looter = ProfileLooter("dreamwifetheband") #error at this line
looter.download('C:/Users/samlb/Downloads/memeFiles', media_count=5)

MY VERSION:

My version of instalooter is 2.4.4 and I'm running it on Python 3.9.13

FULL TRACEBACK:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\samlb\Documents\MEME_VIDEOS\makeMemeVideos.py", line 9, in <module>
    looter = ProfileLooter("dreamwifetheband")
  File "C:\Users\samlb\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\instalooter\looters.py", line 705, in __init__        
    super(ProfileLooter, self).__init__(**kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\samlb\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\instalooter\looters.py", line 287, in __init__        
    token = get_shared_data(res.text)['config']['csrf_token']
  File "C:\Users\samlb\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\instalooter\_utils.py", line 94, in get_shared_data   
    return json.loads(match.group(1))
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

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