[GH-ISSUE #1265] Can't extract url for Instagram posts with only a single image #20922

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opened 2026-06-13 02:55:48 -05:00 by GiteaMirror · 2 comments
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Originally created by @lema-founders on GitHub (May 13, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt/issues/1265

bug description

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"error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response."
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"permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DGcYlHASfbG/",
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"extracted_urls": [
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},
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"id": "80cb27f5-8942-4ed7-8b86-d967070a3521",
"permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DG_VwBRTlen/",
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"https://www.instagram.com/p/DG_VwBRTlen/"
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},
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"https://www.instagram.com/p/DHjL09avg1C/"
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"https://www.instagram.com/p/DHn2KBUprgK/"
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"https://www.instagram.com/p/DIiCVPzJKy_/"
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"https://www.instagram.com/p/DGBLTLtJwAh/"
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"extracted_urls": [
"https://www.instagram.com/p/DHeYmrJT0q6/"
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},
{
"id": "d8cdd785-5bc3-4546-ba86-ada82c4f9770",
"permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DH12f3oTRQ1/",
"success": false,
"extracted_urls": [
"https://www.instagram.com/p/DH12f3oTRQ1/"
],
"error": "Cobalt API error (400): {"status":"error","error":{"code":"error.api.fetch.empty"}}"
},
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"id": "d9515741-80a9-4dcd-bc86-9200278548bc",
"permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHJI3O1pi2g/",
"success": false,
"extracted_urls": [
"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHJI3O1pi2g/"
],
"error": "Cobalt API error (400): {"status":"error","error":{"code":"error.api.fetch.empty"}}"
},
{
"id": "da9271d4-202f-472d-8c54-765277eb6722",
"permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DG-mbAYpYDc/",
"success": false,
"extracted_urls": [
"https://www.instagram.com/p/DG-mbAYpYDc/"
],
"error": "Cobalt API error (400): {"status":"error","error":{"code":"error.api.fetch.empty"}}"
},
{
"id": "de1b853e-b38e-4003-81eb-404892d641c9",
"permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DIZhb-Nzhk6/",
"success": false,
"extracted_urls": [
"https://www.instagram.com/p/DIZhb-Nzhk6/"
],
"error": "Cobalt API error (400): {"status":"error","error":{"code":"error.api.fetch.empty"}}"
},
{
"id": "eb037b9d-3190-48b0-8ab6-4520dc56f207",
"permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DIG5I6UpT9g/",
"success": false,
"extracted_urls": [
"https://www.instagram.com/p/DIG5I6UpT9g/"
],
"error": "Cobalt API error (400): {"status":"error","error":{"code":"error.api.fetch.empty"}}"
},
{
"id": "f12076b5-a92a-45c5-ab5b-1528c4d31f80",
"permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DGYtvSYzA1N/",
"success": false,
"extracted_urls": [
"https://www.instagram.com/p/DGYtvSYzA1N/"
],
"error": "Cobalt API error (400): {"status":"error","error":{"code":"error.api.fetch.empty"}}"
}
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}

reproduction steps

  1. Host Cobalt on docker (With default values)
  2. Ping POST / endpoint (With default values) where url is IG post with a single image https://www.instagram.com/p/DGYtvSYzA1N/

screenshots

No response


platform information

Linux (ubuntu 24.04) Virtual Machine

additional context

Extracting url of single image IG post using cobalt.tools works though, not sure what's the difference

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGYtvSYzA1N/ returns a downloadable link for the image

Originally created by @lema-founders on GitHub (May 13, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt/issues/1265 ### bug description { "results": [ { "id": "007e1deb-7e52-475d-af75-29cc9218b0ac", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DInTaJwpVtg/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "0de24523-b8d7-46fc-abfb-162272a3ff9f", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DHfeTOTJ2gd/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "197c6edb-fdc5-4b7c-8378-1fb164e2c308", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DG-YWWaJilS/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "2e55ae2c-eea1-4762-abf5-7d7f3455ce1e", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DGK4f1splZO/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "36ccb30b-09f6-4637-a184-3e338c9b3158", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DIQCdLApXtU/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "3821fcda-551a-4790-9639-3277331f415c", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DI6femmJpzC/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "3854e2e2-cbda-49b1-a472-d38e5ba73117", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DHAxKIZJ0Fv/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "3eaae4cf-dd81-467d-b062-77be3c7810ab", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DII7MpZpFj1/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "481c07f3-fa21-4e02-b05c-25817a236275", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DHBAiJUpSex/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "49bfa296-4f37-42bb-87e1-7a522ae2c78b", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DHtOF3RJuGX/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "4e4b6d33-a691-4b7a-b273-c3821f079ed5", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DIMbAMcv6hA/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "53a24e92-bfd5-4cf4-9fa8-179c7a719d06", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DHnmAyFJ_td/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "55a517ab-190a-46c5-aaba-40edf252001f", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DG_Af7xv-Tm/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "5fb812fe-976b-42bb-98ed-5ee6920a04d5", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DIRQ59RJLb_/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "68c84b7b-bd1b-459b-a8e8-c8bdbe982b79", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DHl7d5Nz0pU/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "7aff4b10-4eed-464d-96ef-967393c0056d", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DIWBNA_p7b1/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [], "error": "No extracted URLs found in Cobalt response." }, { "id": "7e4299c4-82a8-4fb7-8f1c-6445c53054e2", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DGcYlHASfbG/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [ "https://www.instagram.com/p/DGcYlHASfbG/" ], "error": "Cobalt API error (400): {\"status\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"code\":\"error.api.fetch.empty\"}}" }, { "id": "80cb27f5-8942-4ed7-8b86-d967070a3521", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DG_VwBRTlen/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [ "https://www.instagram.com/p/DG_VwBRTlen/" ], "error": "Cobalt API error (400): {\"status\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"code\":\"error.api.fetch.empty\"}}" }, { "id": "82305a49-2055-416e-8a47-eeea452dd010", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DHjL09avg1C/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [ "https://www.instagram.com/p/DHjL09avg1C/" ], "error": "Cobalt API error (400): {\"status\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"code\":\"error.api.fetch.empty\"}}" }, { "id": "8e7efd27-6372-43f2-8bef-e6b19483875a", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DI54IrzJ4nt/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [ "https://www.instagram.com/p/DI54IrzJ4nt/" ], "error": "Cobalt API error (400): {\"status\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"code\":\"error.api.fetch.empty\"}}" }, { "id": "925890b3-52b3-45b6-b096-25ff217abb49", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DHn2KBUprgK/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [ "https://www.instagram.com/p/DHn2KBUprgK/" ], "error": "Cobalt API error (400): {\"status\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"code\":\"error.api.fetch.empty\"}}" }, { "id": "a1766ee7-466d-4d69-8802-d5840e466e5f", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DIiCVPzJKy_/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [ "https://www.instagram.com/p/DIiCVPzJKy_/" ], "error": "Cobalt API error (400): {\"status\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"code\":\"error.api.fetch.empty\"}}" }, { "id": "a80babad-a628-40a9-b657-915de5d2abbf", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DGBLTLtJwAh/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [ "https://www.instagram.com/p/DGBLTLtJwAh/" ], "error": "Cobalt API error (400): {\"status\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"code\":\"error.api.fetch.empty\"}}" }, { "id": "b8b2e19f-2afe-44e6-9357-a1edb673a1af", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DHeYmrJT0q6/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [ "https://www.instagram.com/p/DHeYmrJT0q6/" ], "error": "Cobalt API error (400): {\"status\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"code\":\"error.api.fetch.empty\"}}" }, { "id": "d8cdd785-5bc3-4546-ba86-ada82c4f9770", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DH12f3oTRQ1/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [ "https://www.instagram.com/p/DH12f3oTRQ1/" ], "error": "Cobalt API error (400): {\"status\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"code\":\"error.api.fetch.empty\"}}" }, { "id": "d9515741-80a9-4dcd-bc86-9200278548bc", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHJI3O1pi2g/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [ "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHJI3O1pi2g/" ], "error": "Cobalt API error (400): {\"status\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"code\":\"error.api.fetch.empty\"}}" }, { "id": "da9271d4-202f-472d-8c54-765277eb6722", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DG-mbAYpYDc/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [ "https://www.instagram.com/p/DG-mbAYpYDc/" ], "error": "Cobalt API error (400): {\"status\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"code\":\"error.api.fetch.empty\"}}" }, { "id": "de1b853e-b38e-4003-81eb-404892d641c9", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DIZhb-Nzhk6/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [ "https://www.instagram.com/p/DIZhb-Nzhk6/" ], "error": "Cobalt API error (400): {\"status\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"code\":\"error.api.fetch.empty\"}}" }, { "id": "eb037b9d-3190-48b0-8ab6-4520dc56f207", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DIG5I6UpT9g/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [ "https://www.instagram.com/p/DIG5I6UpT9g/" ], "error": "Cobalt API error (400): {\"status\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"code\":\"error.api.fetch.empty\"}}" }, { "id": "f12076b5-a92a-45c5-ab5b-1528c4d31f80", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DGYtvSYzA1N/", "success": false, "extracted_urls": [ "https://www.instagram.com/p/DGYtvSYzA1N/" ], "error": "Cobalt API error (400): {\"status\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"code\":\"error.api.fetch.empty\"}}" } ], "success_count": 0, "failed_count": 30, "total_rows": 30 } ### reproduction steps 1. Host Cobalt on docker (With default values) 2. Ping POST / endpoint (With default values) where url is IG post with a single image https://www.instagram.com/p/DGYtvSYzA1N/ ### screenshots _No response_ ### links ```shell ``` ### platform information Linux (ubuntu 24.04) Virtual Machine ### additional context Extracting url of single image IG post using cobalt.tools works though, not sure what's the difference https://www.instagram.com/p/DGYtvSYzA1N/ returns a downloadable link for the image
GiteaMirror added the bug label 2026-06-13 02:55:48 -05:00
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@wukko commented on GitHub (May 19, 2025):

your instance got rate limited, you'll have to use a proxy or different ip to continue. since this is not a bug with cobalt, i'm closing this as completed

<!-- gh-comment-id:2890563911 --> @wukko commented on GitHub (May 19, 2025): your instance got rate limited, you'll have to use a proxy or different ip to continue. since this is not a bug with cobalt, i'm closing this as completed
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@wukko commented on GitHub (May 19, 2025):

also, output is not from cobalt, not sure why you'd send it here

<!-- gh-comment-id:2890564845 --> @wukko commented on GitHub (May 19, 2025): also, output is not from cobalt, not sure why you'd send it here
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