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Open arashnz opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Hello,

I want to use saved cookie to get information from instagram, I used this code :

from context import Instagram # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
from time import sleep
# If account is public you can query Instagram without auth
instagram = Instagram()

cookie="./sessions/yyyy.txt"
instagram.set_cookies(cookie)

But I got this error :

C:\instascraper>py insta.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\instascraper\insta.py", line 12, in <module>
    instagram.set_cookies(cookie)
  File "C:\instascraper\igramscraper\instagram.py", line 55, in set_cookies
    cj.load()
  File "C:\Python39\lib\http\cookiejar.py", line 1799, in load
    self._really_load(f, filename, ignore_discard, ignore_expires)
  File "C:\Python39\lib\http\cookiejar.py", line 2020, in _really_load
    raise LoadError(
http.cookiejar.LoadError: './sessions/yyyy.txt' does not look like a Netscape format cookies file

what is the problem ? This cookie created by login method and the patch is currect. I use windows 10 and python 3.9

arashnz avatar Nov 03 '20 12:11 arashnz