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Is there a way to initialize/authenticate the client without username & password?
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I can login with username and password and then don't need them anymore after I save the settings. No problem with that. I wonder if there is a way to authenticate the user in the initial login without username and password? Maybe by using some cookie values and passing them into the client. Couldn't figure out a way to do this.
---Paste the output of python -V here:
Python 3.6.10 :: Anaconda, Inc.
Code:
# Example code that will produce the error reported
from instagram_web_api import Client
web_api = Client()
user_feed_info = web_api.user_followers('1234567890', count=10)
``
Hello, Yes, Instagram has an endpoint to login with cookie, I wrote a Chrome extension to get Insta cookie from browser and save it in local storage then I can read cookie in my web app and send it to Insta private api to login without getting username and password. I'm using this repo . this library has a method called LoginWithCookie so private api can handle this process, I dont know this repo has this method or no, Anyway you can do it.
