'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

[ahmadrabea]

Library version

instalooter v2.4.4

Environment

• windwos10 64-bit
• Python version 3.10.4

Error description - runtime

Reproducible test case

from instalooter.looters import ProfileLooter
looter = ProfileLooter("funny")
looter.download('./Pictures', media_count=50)

Expected behaviour

download media

Actual behaviour

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\Ahmad\Desktop\YTBot\automated_youtube_channel\instalooter_test.py", line 2, in <module>
    looter = ProfileLooter("funny")
  File "C:\Users\Ahmad\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\instalooter\looters.py", line 705, in __init__
    super(ProfileLooter, self).__init__(**kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Ahmad\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\instalooter\looters.py", line 287, in __init__
    token = get_shared_data(res.text)['config']['csrf_token']
  File "C:\Users\Ahmad\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\instalooter\_utils.py", line 94, in get_shared_data
    return json.loads(match.group(1))
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

Hint

the regex return none here (match is none)

def get_shared_data(html):
    match = re.search(r'window._sharedData = ({[^\n]*});', html)
    return json.loads(match.group(1))

after investigation
I can see that the res.text is not getting the expected response ,

[FlutterFraz]

Hello, I'm stuck at your same point and i agree with your investigation. Have you found any fix or workaround?

[LucasSnatiago]

I'm with the same problem, any solution?

[ahmadrabea]

@FlutterFraz
unfortunately, No

[cameron-astor]

I have encountered this same issue as well.

[9x3l6]

Same issue 2.4.4

instalooter.cli[43626] CRITICAL 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

the problem is potentially in one of these two files...

instalooter/looters.py

instalooter/_utils.py

https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter/search?q=group

UPDATE:

the problem is that the html from the instagram response changed and no longer has window._sharedData as expected on line 77 in _utils.py

    match = re.search(r'window._sharedData = ({[^\n]*});', html)

the html doesn't have that text to find and match anymore, therefore the tool needs an update or it won't work anymore

https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter/blob/master/instalooter/_utils.py#L77

[girosiz]

Same issue 2.4.4

instalooter.cli[43626] CRITICAL 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

the problem is potentially in one of these two files...

instalooter/looters.py

instalooter/_utils.py

https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter/search?q=group

UPDATE:

the problem is that the html from the instagram response changed and no longer has window._sharedData as expected on line 77 in _utils.py

    match = re.search(r'window._sharedData = ({[^\n]*});', html)

the html doesn't have that text to find and match anymore, therefore the tool needs an update or it won't work anymore

https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter/blob/master/instalooter/_utils.py#L77

Same issue 2.4.4

instalooter.cli[43626] CRITICAL 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

the problem is potentially in one of these two files...

instalooter/looters.py

instalooter/_utils.py

https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter/search?q=group

UPDATE:

the problem is that the html from the instagram response changed and no longer has window._sharedData as expected on line 77 in _utils.py

    match = re.search(r'window._sharedData = ({[^\n]*});', html)

the html doesn't have that text to find and match anymore, therefore the tool needs an update or it won't work anymore

https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter/blob/master/instalooter/_utils.py#L77

Hi, having the same issue, and wondering if I could possibly use the same fix and where, my code looks somewhat like this: `from instalooter.looters import ProfileLooter
import datetime
import dateutil.relativedelta

instalooter_test downloads videos posted by daquan in the last month

Instanciate

looter = ProfileLooter("daquan", videos_only=True, template="{id}-{username}-{width}-{height}")
looter.login("", "")

today = datetime.date.today()
thismonth = (today, today - dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta(days=28))

looter.download('./Memes_December_4', media_count=50, timeframe=thismonth)

loader.load_session_from_file(auth['username'], auth['username'] + auth['password'])
except:
loader.login(auth['username'], auth['password'])
loader.save_session_to_file(auth['username'] + auth['password'])

and the response I get from: automated_youtube_channel> instalooter login
Username: failmarket
Password:
2023-02-20 11:24:12 DESKTOP-B227JC4 instalooter.cli[23176] CRITICAL 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
2023-02-20 11:24:12 DESKTOP-B227JC4 instalooter.cli[23176] WARNING unclosed <ssl.SSLSocket fd=932, family=2, type=1, proto=0, laddr=('192.168.1.4', 59172), raddr=('157.240.194.174', 443)>

`

[steinarb]

I have the same problem on debian 11.6 "bullseye"

I installed pip with:

apt install python3-pip

I then installed instalooter as my own user, with:

pip3 install --user instalooter --pre

Then I tried running the instalooter command:

sb@marquez:~$ cd Pictures/
sb@marquez:~/Pictures$ mkdir kaninen_daisy
sb@marquez:~/Pictures$ cd kaninen_daisy/
sb@marquez:~/Pictures/kaninen_daisy$ instalooter user kaninen_daisy
2023-04-17 21:28:52 marquez instalooter.cli[299841] CRITICAL 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
sb@marquez:~/Pictures/kaninen_daisy$