Some instagram videos do not not download, even with login/auth

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• I’m reporting a broken site
• I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2022.10.04 (update instructions) or later (specify commit)
• I’ve checked that all provided URLs are playable in a browser with the same IP and same login details
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Some Instagram videos that require a login are not downloading. So, I’m wondering if there is some issue with logging in (or using other means of authentication), and I suspect it may be due (at least, in part) to not getting valid “shared_data” from the previous request to login URL. I think perhaps there have been some changes to the content of the login page. But I see that verbose output indicates login succeeded (when maybe it actually didn’t??), so I’m pretty confused.

I did find one closed issue that was similar, but I was not sure if it was exactly the same issue or not. It seemed to be related to metadata extraction (or something like that), and it was closed with commit https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/2e7675489f4323c17c8de1e1fd264365c2c36e26. Also, I’m not sure if it resulted in complete failure. In this case, the issue results in complete failure, even when providing valid login/auth credentials with the yt-dlp command.

I hope at least some of this was intelligible. I tried to explain an issue that I don’t really understand.

I will also try to find at least one more video example that demonstrates this issue.

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root@vmi298562:/tmp/yt-dlp# python3.7 /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp -vU --write-pages -u username -p 'password' https://www.instagram.com/p/CjVGN-eqEfQ/
[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', '--write-pages', '-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', 'https://www.instagram.com/p/CjVGN-eqEfQ/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out UTF-8, error UTF-8, screen UTF-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.10.04 [4e0511f27] API
[debug] Lazy loading extractors is disabled
[debug] Python 3.7.3 (CPython 64bit) - Linux-4.9.0-13-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-9.13 (glibc 2.17)
[debug] Checking exe version: ffmpeg -bsfs
[debug] Checking exe version: ffprobe -bsfs
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.2.2-static, ffprobe 4.2.2-static
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.11.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.06.15, mutagen-1.45.1, websockets-9.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Loaded 1691 extractors
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: 2022.10.04, Current version: 2022.10.04
yt-dlp is up to date (2022.10.04)
[Instagram] Downloading login webpage
[Instagram] Saving request to None_https_-_www.instagram.com_accounts_login_.dump
[Instagram] Logging in
[Instagram] Saving request to None_https_-_www.instagram.com_accounts_login_ajax_.dump
[debug] [Instagram] Extracting URL: https://www.instagram.com/p/CjVGN-eqEfQ/
[Instagram] CjVGN-eqEfQ: Setting up session
[Instagram] Saving request to CjVGN-eqEfQ_https_-_i.instagram.com_api_v1_web_get_ruling_for_content_content_type=MEDIA_target_id=2942285280275089360.dump
[Instagram] CjVGN-eqEfQ: Downloading JSON metadata
WARNING: [Instagram] CjVGN-eqEfQ: General metadata extraction failed (some metadata might be missing).
[Instagram] CjVGN-eqEfQ: Downloading webpage
[Instagram] Saving request to CjVGN-eqEfQ_https_-_www.instagram.com_p_CjVGN-eqEfQ_.dump
WARNING: [Instagram] unable to extract shared data; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
WARNING: [Instagram] Main webpage is locked behind the login page. Retrying with embed webpage (some metadata might be missing).
[Instagram] CjVGN-eqEfQ: Downloading embed webpage
[Instagram] Saving request to CjVGN-eqEfQ_https_-_www.instagram.com_p_CjVGN-eqEfQ_embed_.dump
WARNING: [Instagram] unable to extract additional data; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
ERROR: [Instagram] CjVGN-eqEfQ: Requested content is not available, rate-limit reached or login required. Use --cookies, --cookies-from-browser, --username and --password, or --netrc (instagram) to provide account credentials
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 672, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/instagram.py", line 457, in _real_extract
    self.raise_login_required('Requested content is not available, rate-limit reached or login required')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1136, in raise_login_required
    raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=True)