instagram scraping for likes broke #840
Description
first reported by @thorkon yesterday. (thank you!) started sometime in the last few weeks. looks like instagram likes now need an extra HTTP fetch to scrape.
eg if you fetch https://www.instagram.com/p/BmbU2qSFXrR/ , the embedded JSON media object has:
"edge_media_preview_like": {
"count": 9,
"edges": [],
}that edges field used to have the individual likes, but now it's empty. if you click on the 9 likes link on the instagram UI, it GETs this URL:
https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_hash=e0f59e4a1c8d78d0161873bc2ee7ec44&variables={"shortcode":"BmmWVV9lHjI","include_reel":false,"first":24}
which returns:
{
"status": "ok",
"data": {
"shortcode_media": {
"id": "1848262920796141768",
"shortcode": "BmmWVV9lHjI",
"edge_liked_by": {
"count": 14,
"page_info": {"..."},
"edges": [
{
"node": {
"id": "1072653878",
"username": "kaydeedubya",
"full_name": "",
"profile_pic_url": "https://instagram.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/2cd0c658b9123a8f67d05301aa875598/5C15E91D/t51.2885-19/s150x150/13712803_750357865105707_625900552_a.jpg",
"is_private": false,
"is_verified": false,
"followed_by_viewer": false,
"requested_by_viewer": false
}
},
{
"node": {
"id": "185218713",
"username": "smawson",
"full_name": "Sven",
"profile_pic_url": "https://instagram.fbkk1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/eaf4663b993b22ab3c90681222cba10e/5C0B007A/t51.2885-19/11906329_960233084022564_1448528159_a.jpg",
"is_private": true,
"is_verified": false,
"followed_by_viewer": false,
"requested_by_viewer": false
}
},
"..."
]
}
}
}
}i can work with that.
also note that the daily instagram_live_test.py run didn't catch this because it wasn't checking for likes. sigh. i'll fix that.