Comments download have been limited to 50

[Gabriel-Aragao]

Both command line and python module are downloading only 50 comments of each post,

To Reproduce
instaloader --login=scrape.gcp.3 --comments --no-captions --no-pictures -- -SHORTCODE

Expected behavior
When a post had more than 250 comments, it used to appear the 250 ... 500 ... 750.. and every comment downloaded.
Since yesterday it have been downloading olny 50 comments.

Instaloader version
4.10.1

[Gabriel-Aragao]

Have anyone found a workarround for this?

[hmobinizade]

Yes, I have exactly the same problem in recent days. It gives only 11 recent comments from each post!!!

[Gabriel-Aragao]

Yes, I have exactly the same problem in recent days. It gives only 11 recent comments from each post!!!

Have you found a solution?

[jopapo]

Just to add something I noticed:

50 is graphql paging hard-coded client-side (but it seems that is the upper limit in the server also - tried to put more and didnt work) and server dont say it has more pages. So, it returns just the first page.

Somehow the backend is returning:

"page_info":{
      "has_next_page":false,
      "end_cursor":"None"
   },

has_next_page should be returning True (in my case... 2k+ comments) and the lib would try to fetch more pages.

https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader/blob/master/instaloader/nodeiterator.py#L140

Don't know if it is something with the server or the graphql lib limit request... :-/

[Michoko92]

DId someone find a fix for this please? I'm trying to get a few thousand comments from a post and can only get the first 50 ones too. Thank you so much for your help!

[aandergr]

Indeed, this is reproducible. Thanks for reporting!

[ardian708]

Has anyone found the solution? this library should be fixed please

[aandergr]

It seems it is still quite reliable to query the comments of posts that have more than 50 comments via an iPhone endpoint.

For those in a hurry, I've put together a little gist for this before I built it into Instaloader: https://gist.github.com/aandergr/35ad3881e726e2be8925cf09e719a68b

[aandergr]

Fixed in Version 4.10.3.