some instagram videos/posts don’t download

[NotADinosaur]

bug description

sometimes cobalt works with downloading from instagram and sometimes it doesn’t, I can’t tell if there’s any difference between the ones that work or not. other instagram-specific downloaders (e.g snapinsta.app) have no problems with the same posts.

screenshots

error 1: error 2: (also you should capitalize the "i" but that’s not as much of an issue lol)

links

example of one that doesn’t work (gives first error message): https://www.instagram.com/p/C9fdwM4PnBe/ example of one that doesn’t work (gives second error message): https://www.instagram.com/p/C9nLk9WO4-l/ example of one that works: https://www.instagram.com/p/C8hrh8aRAMK/ (ignore the content of the videos, they’re just random ones a friend sent me)

platform information

happens on both ios 17 safari and win10 chrome, I think it’s a problem with the site and not the browser