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BigTroll said:

This shit annoys me as hell. 20-30% of scraped users can't be folllowed because of this shitty error. Am I the single one?

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longdouble said:

The problem you're getting is not related to your VPS. It is your bot to blame. It does not understand server's reply and just spits generic error.

Second, the bot is coded/configured incorrectly because you have only usernames without accociated user IDs. In real world usernames ALWAYS go along with user IDs.

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HoNeYBiRD said:

it's a followliker log, i'm not sure if you realized it or not, but the lack of the user IDs is the problem, not because what you said, that the bot would be coded incorrectly, but because it's just unable to scrape the user IDs for some reason in 20-30% of the cases for OP, it doesn't happen every time, as you can see another user doesn't have the problem, so it must be a user error (if it's not the VPS then it can be too short delays, too many accs on the same ip, too many simultaneous ip connections etc) or else we will have a lot more threads like this taking into account that how many forum users own and use the tool

to OP: if it doesn't happen when you run the bot on your machine, obviously it has something to do with the VPS, contact FL support, they might have an idea what causes this, if it happens there too, then it's your accs/settings

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BigTroll said:

Everybody knows that the FL support is full of shit. They told me that it's because of the accounts, users was scraped before and they disabled their accounts after. So, that's the conclusion, FL can not get the ID because the usernames doesnt exist.
Those motherfuckers didn't even checked my screenshot, all users are good, lol.

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HoNeYBiRD said:

yea, that can't be the explanation, but does it happen when you run the bot on your machine or only the VPS?

i'm thinking maybe it's a scraping limitation imposed by ig, not sure, try to adjust/increase your delays or start a new account from a fresh ip, don't run any more account on the same ip and see if the problem will come up with that too

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longdouble said:

The problem is directly IG-side related. Recently they limited one's ability to scrape users in a very tricky way. It does not affect normal users, but botters suffer. That's why I said: FL cannot handle server reply and gives a generic error. I know it because I scrape users in huge quantities per day and have hit the limit it among the first.

I've changed the algo of my bot and should be back on track to same quantities in a matter of a week. FL botters will face difficulties to adjust.

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SalesForce said:

Proxys not working properly?

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