On the instagram login page, if one inspects the element of the POST call for the url 'https://www.instagram.com/accounts/web_create_ajax/', it lists the following as headers:
Host: www.instagram.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Referer: https://www.instagram.com/
X-CSRFToken: 7dmO9F3JuVGvSXumd79yByPxnHoWHz1A
X-Instagram-AJAX: c2d8f4380025
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Content-Length: 102
Cookie: csrftoken=7dmO9F3JuVGvSXumd79yByPxnHoWHz1A; mid=W30zsQAEAAErXHJ3iUojfTceCd53; mcd=3; csrftoken=7dmO9F3JuVGvSXumd79yByPxnHoWHz1A; rur=FTW
Connection: keep-alive
I am wondering if anyone would have any idea what X-Instagram-AJAX is and how I can generate it each time. Is it connected as a pair with X-CSRFToken? Thanks.
Follow, like etc requests working without this header. I don't know what is it but i think instagram dedects suspicious requests with this and then log it. You can get this value on any page in instagram This is x-instagram-ajax value
You can parse it and use.
