[BUG] Public API is not working

[Peesky]

I have been recently using the public API for some tests And even if in December #1666 succesfully managed to correct it I retried these last few days and I get the following exception : instagrapi.exceptions.ClientNotFoundError: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://www.instagram.com/########/?__a=1&__d=dis

So I have searched from where we get that and I have found that there may be some problems with the following function :

  def public_a1_request(self, endpoint, data=None, params=None, headers=None):
          url = (self.PUBLIC_API_URL + str(endpoint)).replace(
              ".com//", ".com/"
          )  # (jarrodnorwell) fixed KeyError: 'data', fixed // error
          params = params or {}
          params.update({"__a": 1, "__d": "dis"})
  
          response = self.public_request(
              url, data=data, params=params, headers=headers, return_json=True
          )
          return response.get("graphql") or response

[jfrenl]

This endpoint is to the end of it's life and wont be coming back and so far there are no solutions. You can use this:

import requests

url = "https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/web_profile_info/?username=instagram"

headers = { "User-Agent": "iphone_ua", "x-ig-app-id": "936619743392459" }

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.status_code) print(response.json())

[Peesky]

Thank's! but then how can I get some informations about random accounts (like the names of the followers of a given account ) via the public api? Is there a quite stable solution? I don't really understand the solution you gave me. But thank you very much for the answer. I'm working on fully understand it and integrate it.

[incredibleSun148]

Due to the Instagram API problem, the program cannot retrieve the user's information. Please fix the module. Or offer an alternative solution : File "C:\Users###\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\instagrapi\mixins\user.py", line 165, in user_info_by_username_v1 raise UserNotFound(e, username=username, **self.last_json) instagrapi.exceptions.UserNotFound: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/%20konusanlar.daily/usernameinfo/