instagrapi.exceptions.ClientUnauthorizedError: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: [BUG]

[shjee-afridi]

To Reproduce

from instagrapi import Client
import os

def login(username, password):
    cl = Client()
    cl.delay_range = [60, 70]
    if os.path.exists(f"settings({username}).json"):
        cl.load_settings(f"settings({username}).json")
    if cl.login(username=username, password=password):
        cl.dump_settings(f"settings({username}).json")
        print("Login successful")

        # Add your code here to run after successful login
        yo = cl.user_followers_gql_chunk("xxx", 0, "None")
        print(yo)

        return cl
    else:
        print("Login failed")


cl = login('xxxx', 'xxxx')

Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/instagrapi/mixins/public.py", line 168, in _send_public_request
    response.raise_for_status()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 1021, in raise_for_status
    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?variables=%7B%22id%22%3A%2252218558877%22%2C%22include_reel%22%3Atrue%2C%22fetch_mutual%22%3Afalse%2C%22first%22%3A12%2C%22after%22%3A%22None%22%7D&query_hash=5aefa9893005572d237da5068082d8d5

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/shjee/Desktop/insta/main.py", line 22, in <module>
    cl = login('xxxx', 'xxxx')
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/user/Desktop/insta/main.py", line 14, in login
    yo = cl.user_followers_gql_chunk("xxxx", 0, "None")
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/instagrapi/mixins/user.py", line 664, in user_followers_gql_chunk
    data = self.public_graphql_request(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/instagrapi/mixins/public.py", line 240, in public_graphql_request
    body_json = self.public_request(
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/instagrapi/mixins/public.py", line 123, in public_request
    raise e
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/instagrapi/mixins/public.py", line 100, in public_request
    return self._send_public_request(url, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/shjee/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/instagrapi/mixins/public.py", line 191, in _send_public_request
    raise ClientUnauthorizedError(e, response=e.response)
instagrapi.exceptions.ClientUnauthorizedError: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?variables=%7B%22id%22%3A%2252218558877%22%2C%22include_reel%22%3Atrue%2C%22fetch_mutual%22%3Afalse%2C%22first%22%3A12%2C%22after%22%3A%22None%22%7D&query_hash=5aefa9893005572d237da5068082d8d5

Expected behavior to get all the users followers

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Alpine Linux
• Python version 3.11
• instagrapi version latest

[jotauses]

Same problem here.

[nebula0225]

use session, do not login every run with your code and use high quality proxy, account

[balexandermunoz]

Same problem using client.user_followers_gql_chunk(user_id, max_amount=200, end_cursor=current_cursor) in a for loop with sleep. In second iteration I get the error