Error with the installation

[Islhaw]

Hi ! I have an issue when I try to install the program. Could you please help me to understand what is happening ? Thanks.

Here is what I have in PowerShell:

PS C:\Users\User\instaloctrack> pip3 install . Processing c:\users\user\instaloctrack Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> [10 lines of output] Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 2, in File "", line 34, in File "C:\Users\User\instaloctrack\setup.py", line 4, in long_description = fh.read() ^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 376: character maps to [end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata. ╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip. hint: See above for details.

[YLA1018]

I've same problem, if you have a solution , i'm ready !

[albotroz]

seems like it is dead, or?

[bernsteining]

Yes this project was a school project a did 4-5 years ago.

Even if pip install would work, I doubt the scraping logic would still work since Instagram evolved a lot in 4 years, I guess.

You could rewrite it using playwright, it shouldn't be that hard IMO, and it can be a first fun project to learn webscraping.

I'm archiving this project as I won't touch it anymore.