Recently there are a lot of new issues and comments about instagram bridge throwing 429 errors #1863 #1885 and even workaround from #1617 (comment) does not help.

First of all, I want to clarify, that there is no maintainer of InstagramBridge. Recent commit 56b2c51 had to be pushed long time ago. By maintainer I mean person, that at least fixes bugs or reports why it is certain bug is not fixable at the moment and comments on InstagramBridge PRs.

429 error means "Too many requests". It means that Instagram servers receive a lot of requests from your server (not only rss-bridge instance). So InstagramBridge on public and popular RSS-Bridge instance will probably throw this error.

There are opinions, if we make somehow InstagramBridge to login via existing account, it won't show such errors. To prove that in practice, private credentials feature has to be implemented. There is issue for that #1170 and draft PR #1343. But @teromene won't continue working on that PR, so someone has to continue his work.

Possible solutions for users:

• Deploy RSS-Bridge on your personal PC or laptop and use InstagramBridge from there.
• Deploy RSS-Bridge on your VPS, make sure that only certain people use it and use InstagramBridge from there.
• Use bibliogram https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/ instead of RSS-Bridge.

Note, that deploying RSS-Bridge on shared hosting probably won't help, 'cos there would be other users making requests to instagram on the same server.