From cfd3bb0038ad7bab3a95ce7b62b1e465f4c67aed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bashonly <bashonly@protonmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:07:30 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] [ie/instagram] Disable login by credentials

Authored by: bashonly
---
 yt_dlp/extractor/instagram.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/instagram.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/instagram.py
index ed69c5ed1..5811d56ee 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/instagram.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/instagram.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def _id_to_pk(shortcode):
 
 
 class InstagramBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _NETRC_MACHINE = 'instagram'
+    # _NETRC_MACHINE = 'instagram'  # Login is broken, disabling until it is fixed
     _IS_LOGGED_IN = False
 
     _API_BASE_URL = 'https://i.instagram.com/api/v1'