[BUG] user_followers() limit not working

[birdhouses]

Describe the bug
The limit for fetching followers from a user is not working, because the code keeps making calls after the limit has been reached.

To Reproduce

Code that calls user_followers:

cl = instabot.get_client(Client, ACCOUNT_USERNAME, ACCOUNT_PASSWORD)
user_id = cl.user_id_from_username(username)
users = cl.user_followers(user_id, 5)

instabot.get_client() just calls to the example exception handler method. Client is from instagrapi import Client

Expected behavior
I expect the function to only fetch 5 followers, but the api keeps making calls fetching users

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu 22.04
• Python version 3.10.6
• instagrapi version 1.17.3

Additional context
After getting blocked from making requests by instagram, I saw the following query in the logs:
2023-04-20 23:48:15,022 - INFO - myusername [400] GET https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/friendships/2374691999/followers/?max_id=&count=10000&rank_token=58991008697_849824da-4088-4e16-98c3-6307833f7531&search_surface=follow_list_page&query=&enable_groups=true (269.0.0.18.75, OnePlus 6T Dev)

where count=10000 seems to me that it's causing the issue.

[SaeidB]

fixed :
#1286

[adw0rd]

fixed a437624

[claell]

I received a warning from Instagram that I am using automation and my account might get blocked, possibly due to this, but not sure.

So, apparently the count got removed entirely now in the fix; before it seemed fixed to 10000. Does that mean that the internal function always retrieved (and now retrieves) all followers, and then the limit is only applied within Python for the actually returned names?

[adw0rd]

@claell Do not use your account to extract data from instagram, you will be banned

[claell]

@adw0rd That wasn't the use case, I just wanted to get the followers and followed users for my account (not something like scraping many users). That scope should be fine, right (executed once per day)? Possibly as I ran into #1292, I tried again several (about five) times, also for debugging, and that might be what triggered their detection algorithms.

Thanks for the heads-up, though!

[claell]

Ah, I just saw that not https://github.com/adw0rd/instagrapi/pull/1286/files but a437624 got implemented. That changes my interpretation of count getting removed. Sorry for the confusion!

[claell]

So as this new implementation now also has a count argument, I assume that the underlying issue was that Instagram recently changed their limits, and it was no longer possible to fire requests (at least for user_following) with a count of 10000.

[claell]

Viewing the blame of the relevant file, I see this commit: 0d82741. But I'd assume that has been tested to work before, so likely not the cause of the problem, I hope.