From d0e9b711ac0455a45bce37c0c6cde95a1ffb89fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Graf Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:33:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] README.md: trivial improvements --- README.md | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d0483bd..0822d17 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -9,29 +9,29 @@ Ensure having [Python](https://www.python.org/) (at least version 3.3) and After having downloaded instaloader.py, you invoke it with ``` -instaloader.py profile [profile ...] +./instaloader.py profile [profile ...] ``` where `profile` is the name of a profile you want to download. Instead of only one profile, you may also specify a list of profiles. To later update your local copy of that profile, you may run ``` -instaloader.py --fast-update profile [profile ...] +./instaloader.py --fast-update profile [profile ...] ``` When `--fast-update` is given, instaloder terminates when arriving at the first already-downloaded picture. Instaloader can also be used to **download private profiles**. To do so, invoke it with ``` -instaloader.py --login username profile [profile ...] +./instaloader.py --login=your_username profile [profile ...] ``` -When invoked like this, it also **stores the session cookies** in a file in `/tmp`, which will later -be reused when `--login` is given. So you can download private profiles **non-interactively** when -you already have a valid session cookies file. +When invoked like this, it also **stores the session cookies** in a file in `/tmp`, which will be +reused later when `--login` is given. So you can download private profiles **non-interactively** +when you already have a valid session cookies file. The `--quiet` option makes it also **suitable as a cron job**. -To get a list of other helpful flags, run `instaloader.py --help`. +To get a list of other helpful flags, run `./instaloader.py --help`. ## Usage as library