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riccardorighettiphoto opened this issue Apr 11, 2018 · 2 comments · May be fixed by IdanDavidi/InstaPy#1
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UnicodeDecodeError: ASCII code can't decode byte... #1830

riccardorighettiphoto opened this issue Apr 11, 2018 · 2 comments · May be fixed by IdanDavidi/InstaPy#1

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@riccardorighettiphoto
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riccardorighettiphoto commented Apr 11, 2018 •
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Continuously getting this error. Any idea?
CentOS 7.x, Python 2.7

Traceback (most recent call last): File "./quickstart.py", line 39, in <module> session.like_by_tags(['tag1', 'tag2', 'tag3', 'tag4'], amount=100) File "/home/my_name/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 987, in like_by_tags '--> Image not liked: {}'.format(reason.encode('utf-8'))) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf0 in position 49: ordinal not in range(128)

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axlright commented Jun 21, 2018 •
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I just got this same error. Seems to have barfed out on an emoji in an image description.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkRhLVbFgWF/

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "user-xxx-hashtag-architecturelovers.py", line 63, in <module>
    session.like_by_tags(['#architecturelovers'], amount=636)
  File "/Users/my_name/Documents/Code/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 1315, in like_by_tags
    '--> Image not liked: {}'.format(reason.encode('utf-8')))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 53: ordinal not in range(128)

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The issue is bound to your terminal output and the standard decoding that is set (seems like Ascii).
If you change the decoding, it should work.

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