Exception has occurred: RateLimitError Please wait a few minutes before you try again.

[music-lover99]

I'm currently getting Exception has occurred: RateLimitError Please wait a few minutes before you try again. when I try to login.

The documentation says to fix this problem by "changing your proxy" – but I'm not sure how I could do that in instagrapi. Could I get a code snippet of what that would look like?

[adw0rd]

@music-lover99 you can add RateLimitError as BadPassword in this snippet:
https://adw0rd.github.io/instagrapi/usage-guide/handle_exception.html

[samuelbraun04]

@adw0rd When I implement that code and run my program I get the following error:

Exception has occurred: AttributeError
'Account' object has no attribute 'freeze'

at the commented line:

from instagrapi import Client
from instagrapi.exceptions import (
    ChallengeRequired,
    FeedbackRequired,
    LoginRequired,
    PleaseWaitFewMinutes,
    RecaptchaChallengeForm,
    ReloginAttemptExceeded,
    SelectContactPointRecoveryForm,
    RateLimitError
)

class Account:
    username = "USERNAME"
    password = "PASSWORD"

    def get_client(self):
        """We return the client class, in which we automatically handle exceptions
        You can move the "handle_exception" above or into an external module
        """

        def handle_exception(client, e):
            if isinstance(e, RateLimitError):
                client.logger.exception(e)
                client.set_proxy(self.next_proxy().href)
                if client.relogin_attempt > 0:
                    self.freeze(str(e), days=7)
                    raise ReloginAttemptExceeded(e)
                client.settings = self.rebuild_client_settings()
                return self.update_client_settings(client.get_settings())
            elif isinstance(e, LoginRequired):
                client.logger.exception(e)
                client.relogin()
                return self.update_client_settings(client.get_settings())
            elif isinstance(e, ChallengeRequired):
                api_path = client.last_json.get("challenge", {}).get("api_path")
                if api_path == "/challenge/":
                    client.set_proxy(self.next_proxy().href)
                    client.settings = self.rebuild_client_settings()
                else:
                    try:
                        client.challenge_resolve(client.last_json)
                    except ChallengeRequired as e:
                        self.freeze('Manual Challenge Required', days=2)
                        raise e
                    except (ChallengeRequired, SelectContactPointRecoveryForm, RecaptchaChallengeForm) as e:
                        self.freeze(str(e), days=4)
                        raise e
                    self.update_client_settings(client.get_settings())
                return True
            elif isinstance(e, FeedbackRequired):
                message = client.last_json["feedback_message"]
                if "This action was blocked. Please try again later" in message:
                    self.freeze(message, hours=12)
                    # client.settings = self.rebuild_client_settings()
                    # return self.update_client_settings(client.get_settings())
                elif "We restrict certain activity to protect our community" in message:
                    # 6 hours is not enough
                    self.freeze(message, hours=12)
                elif "Your account has been temporarily blocked" in message:
                    """
                    Based on previous use of this feature, your account has been temporarily
                    blocked from taking this action.
                    This block will expire on 2020-03-27.
                    """
                    self.freeze(message)
            elif isinstance(e, PleaseWaitFewMinutes):
                self.freeze(str(e), hours=1) #ERROR IS HAPPENING HERE
            raise e

        cl = Client()
        cl.handle_exception = handle_exception
        cl.login(self.username, self.password)
        return cl

[adw0rd]

@samuelbraun04 this is an example, you need to implement your account yourself