Problem installing instaloader

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in simple terms - you are about to exceed the rate limit set by Instagram. Pay attention to red text in quote:

429 - Too Many Requests

Instaloader has a logic to keep track of its requests to Instagram and to obey their rate limits. Since they are nowhere documented, we try them out experimentally. We have a daily cron job running to confirm that Instaloader still stays within the rate limits. Nevertheless, the rate control logic assumes that

at one time, Instaloader is the only application that consumes requests. I.e. neither the Instagram browser interface, nor a mobile app, nor another Instaloader instance is running in parallel,

no requests had been consumed when Instaloader starts.

The latter one implies that restarting or reinstantiating Instaloader often within short time is prone to cause a 429. When a request is denied with a 429, Instaloader retries the request as soon as the temporary ban is assumed to be expired. In case the retry continuously fails for some reason, which should not happen in normal conditions, consider adjusting the --max-connection-attempts option.

“Too many queries in the last time” is not an error. It is a notice that the rate limit has almost been reached, according to Instaloader’s own rate accounting mechanism. We regularly adjust this mechanism to match Instagram’s current rate limiting.