Checkpoint Challenge Required

[drepram]

So I was accessing instagram on the web and I wanted to view my DM's through igdm, but somehow, I can't log in.

Is this a bug?

Logging in on igdm-cli

Ended up fucking my web session.

[mathdroid]

This is expected, Instagram actually uses several safety mechanisms, including this challenge. This CLI doesn't handle the errors properly (yet) hence the console.error("can't login").

Known safety mechanisms:

1. Auth challenge from a logged in session => we should inform users to open a logged in session elsewhere
2. Secret code, sent to email => we can let the user input the code through the CLI

For now, PRs are welcome

[marjanovicsteva]

I'm open to try to fix this. Is it okay for me to format other errors too (wrong username, password)?

[mathdroid]

Yes, feel free to include them either in the same PR or different ones 😇 On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 19.59 Stevan Marjanovic [email protected] wrote:

I'm open to try to fix this. Is it okay for me to format other errors too (wrong username, password)?

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[marjanovicsteva]

Known safety mechanisms: 2. Secret code, sent to email => we can let the user input the code through the CLI

Right now on my fork, there is a fix for wrong username/password. I also managed to send the user the verification code (via email). But when I try to verify it over code() function (defined in challenge.js:194) I get error that the function is not defined at all...

I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but are you aware of the problem or should I issue it on instagram-private-api?

[Pr0ph3ta]

Any update regarding this issue? I'm currently facing the same. Already tried @marjanovicsteva fork and i wasn't able to also find a good solution

[marjanovicsteva]

Any update regarding this issue? I'm currently facing the same. Already tried @marjanovicsteva fork and i wasn't able to also find a good solution

Hey @Pr0ph3ta , I recently contacted a guy that created igdm, a project that successfully resolves the challenge issue. He replied with the following snippet.

Client.Web.Challenge.resolve(error, 'email').then((challenge) => challenge.code('123456'))

But for some super strange reason, this promise doesn't return anything (so neither .then() or .catch() functions are called). There is no situation that is supposed to just skip promises. I mean, they promised...

If you're down to check all this together, so I could send you everything I've collected regarding this, feel free to contact me :)

[andrew222651]

btw the script https://github.com/nemanjan00/instagram-chat does login without generating the "this was me/this wasn't me" thing

[joecabezas]

any updates on this?, I am getting the challenge URL, and solve it in a web browser, but after that still requires another challenge in igdm-cli, how can I login then?

[isakal]

Just stumbled on same exact issue, same error output. After i visit the challenge link i was given in the output, it logs me into the browser but not into the CLI.