diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 982f37a..31f3a65 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Simple downloader to fetch all Instagram pictures and captions from a given prof
 Ensure having [Python](https://www.python.org/) (at least version 3.3) and
 [python3-requests](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests/) installed.
 
-After having downloaded instaloader.py, you invoke it with
+After having [downloaded instaloader.py](https://github.com/Thammus/instaloader/releases), you invoke it with
 ```
 ./instaloader.py profile [profile ...]
 ```
diff --git a/instaloader.py b/instaloader.py
index 7c5d2e2..f10cb9e 100755
--- a/instaloader.py
+++ b/instaloader.py
@@ -398,6 +398,8 @@ def main():
     parser = ArgumentParser(description='Simple downloader to fetch all Instagram pics and '\
                                         'captions from a given profile')
     parser.add_argument('targets', nargs='+', help='Names of profiles to download')
+    parser.add_argument('--version', action='version',
+                        version='1.0')
     parser.add_argument('-l', '--login', metavar='login_name',
             help='Provide login name for your Instagram account')
     parser.add_argument('-p', '--password',