Filtering media not working as it should

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Paste the output of python -V here: Python 2.7.17

Code:

# Example code that will produce the error reported
from instabot import Bot

bot = Bot()
bot.login(username="user", password="pass")
medias = bot.get_hashtag_medias("drifted")

Error/Debug Log:

2020-01-22 23:06:04,738 - DEBUG - GET to endpoint: feed/tag/drifted/?max_id=&rank_token=28438133771_e63fb8db-0d3d-4882-8052-fd2c482ba12d&ranked_content=true& returned response: <Response [200]>
2020-01-22 23:06:04,779 - INFO - Received 84 medias.
2020-01-22 23:06:04,780 - INFO - After filtration 0 medias left.

I followed the installation guide, and used pip to install the bot. Then used git to download the examples, as shown in the installation guide for Linux.
I am using everything default, nothing changed.

After going through the code, I tried to comment the filter_medias function in bot_filter.py, like this:

def filter_medias(self, media_items, filtration=True, quiet=False, is_comment=False):
    # if filtration:
        # if not quiet:
            # self.logger.info("Received {} medias.".format(len(media_items)))
        # if not is_comment:
            # media_items = _filter_medias_not_liked(media_items)
            # if self.max_likes_to_like:
                # media_items = _filter_medias_nlikes(
                    # media_items, self.max_likes_to_like, self.min_likes_to_like
                # )
        # else:
            # media_items = _filter_medias_not_commented(self, media_items)
        # if not quiet:
            # msg = "After filtration {} medias left."
            # self.logger.info(msg.format(len(media_items)))
    return _get_media_ids(media_items)

Weirdly enough, this doesn't solve it, and I get:

2020-01-22 23:06:04,779 - INFO - Received 84 medias.
2020-01-22 23:06:04,780 - INFO - After filtration 3 medias left.

Using

medias = bot.get_hashtag_medias("drifted",filtration=False)

does seem to work, but you obviously don't have any control at that point anymore.

Initially I tried using the example script to download by hashtag (same error), but tried manually to simplify the problem as much as possible.

[duplicate-issues]

Hey @TerrorFactor,

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

• #1252 - Upload Story Photo says photo ... is not uploaded
• #1250 - Is there a way to post an image from a url?
• #1249 - How to send automatic dm with images to New followers

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

[bruvv]

Thanks for the issue! Indeed looks like a bug, when I have more time I can debug the other issues first.

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