Delphi - How to login to the Instagram with TChromium?

Question

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var
  Header:  ICefStringMultimap;
  Data:    ICefPostData;
  request: ICefRequest;
begin
  Header := TCefStringMultimapOwn.Create;
  Header.Append('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
  Data := TCefPostDataRef.New;
  Data.AddElement(CreateField('username=nameofuser'));
  Data.AddElement(CreateField('&enc_password=#PWD_INSTAGRAM_BROWSER:10:1635078414:AdF...g=='));
  request       := TCefRequestRef.New;
  request.Flags := UR_FLAG_NONE;
  request.SetReferrer('https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/', uCEFTypes.TCefReferrerPolicy.REFERRER_POLICY_NEVER_CLEAR_REFERRER);
  request.Assign('https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/ajax/', 'POST', Data, Header);
  Chromium1.browser.MainFrame.LoadRequest(request);
end;
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When the codes above executed, the respond is:

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Answer 1

The Asynchronous javascript (AJAX) call to https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/ajax is a web service call into the back end made by code called on the login page. It is not a page to navigate the browser to on its own. It also does a lot of other setup for the call.

If you inspect the normal web page operation using the developer tools available on modern browsers you can see what the web service responds with and it is not a webpage. It returns JSON which is easily consumed by Javascript code. For example on a call that fails to login due to both a user and password that are not valid it returns:

{
    "user": false,
    "authenticated": false,
    "status": "ok"
}

One method to automate web applications like this is to set element values and trigger events.