Instagram replay not working with glitch

Help!
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Hi,

I am trying to make a sharable archive of an Instagram page.

I remixed the glitch example with webrecorder, but the replay will not load. It works fine with the twitter example.

I think perhaps the problem is that my WACZ file is 551mb, I’m not sure how to progress.

https://ella-instagram-archive.glitch.me/

Thanks!

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Looking at the Glitch, I think it might just be a filename issue. The uploaded file is called ella's-instagram-archive.wacz but its referenced as ellas-instagram-archive.wacz.
I think Glitch does not allow renaming the file, so would recommend re-uploading without the ' in the filename.

I found this by looking at the Logs on glitch, but we can probably improve the error handling in the web archive starter also…

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Looking at it further, this might be an issue with Glitch itself… it seems like the file is returning an empty URL. Perhaps it is too big for glitch?
I would try re-uploading the file without the quote in the filename and seeing if that works…

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ah yes thank you, that is a silly error on me.

I re-uploaded now without ’ and - in the filename and the reference is correct now, but it is still returning as not found… it could be too big… Do you have any suggestions of where I could host the file alternatively if it is too big for glitch?

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ok, yes, apparently it is above the maximum file size

https://glitch.happyfox.com/kb/article/17-what-are-the-technical-restrictions-for-glitch-projects/#:~:text=Apps%20are%20limited%20to%204000,Too%20Many%20Requests%22%20response)..)

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Yes, though I wish they would just not allow the download instead of having it fail silently!

This is something we’re trying to figure out so that we can recommend a solution.
Most cloud-hosting services that can host files should work. I don’t know of any free options, but cloud-hosting services like Linode, DigitalOcean, etc… all should work fairly well, though they’re not free.
Google Drive also can work, but is a bit slow. Actually, looks like OwnCloud has a free tier.
I’ll update if I have any better solution… All that’s needed is file storage.

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(And you can still host the page on Glitch, just need to put the large file somewhere else…)

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ah thank you thank you :smiley:

yes it’s very annoying that it allows the file to download!..

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Ok… so I managed to host the file, and it is fine, but now I get this error:

An unexpected error occured: TypeError: Failed to fetch

Do you have any idea what that might be caused by?

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ah it’s because of CORS… okay… yes please let me know if you find any alternatives!