Crawl user.id by non-login/guest request

[hashtafak]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Yes, to prevent blocking fast. Many action need user_id to process.

Describe the solution you'd like
Using non-login (no cookies) request to https://www.instagram.com/${username}/?__a=1 to extract user.id
Eg: https://www.instagram.com/github/?__a=1

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context
1 IP got blocked after many more request to it. Suggestion is slowly down or use proxies

[duplicate-issues]

Hey @hashtafak,

We did a quick check and this issue looks very darn similar to

• #1317 - [BUG] upload photos - Not yet logged in starting: PRE-LOGIN FLOW!
• #1299 - [BUG] using "ask_for_code=True" returns error
• #1293 - [QUESTION] Can't login (Checkpoint challenge required/Not possible to log in)

This could be a coincidence, but if any of these issues solves your problem then I did a good job 😄

If not, the maintainers will get to this issue shortly.

Cheers,
Your Friendly Neighborhood ProBot