The comment function in the command line options documentation and the main program file has been edited to state that it now requires login. This change was crucial as the additional requests to Instagram server made for each post necessitate user authentication.
Adds the --latest-stamps command line option, pointing to a file where
the latest time each profile was scraped. On the next run, only posts
newer than that time are downloaded.
Fixes#1122.
Sets a default request timeout of 300 seconds to fix Instaloader hanging indefinitely when used on an unstable internet connection without using --request-timeout, such as in #810.
With this change, Instaloader is capable of resuming a previously-aborted download loop. To do so, it creates a JSON file within the target directory when interrupted, that contains all the necessary information to later resume that operation.
Resuming an interrupted download is supported for most, but not all targets. It is supported for:
- Regular profile posts,
- IGTV posts
- Saved posts,
- Tagged posts,
- Explore posts.
The presence of a sessionfile avoids the usage of the failure-prone login
mechanism. This commit addresses a suggestion in #615 to store the sessionfile
in a persistent path rather than a path within a temporary directory if no
--sessionfile parameter is given.
The default path is now:
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/instaloader/session-USERNAME or
~/.config/instaloader/session-USERNAME on Unix,
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Instaloader\session-USERNAME on Windows.
If no file exists in the new path, Instaloader tries loading from the path
where the sessionfile was stored before this commit, hence it automatically
migrates to the new sessionfile path.
* Add %location search option
Search for posts for a given location ID using %[location id] as the query
* Document %location search
* Make pylint happy
* Use correct paths for location results
* Fix —help output
Add description of location argument and fix output error for short help.
* Add unit tests for location download
* Add extra unit test for locations
The commit mode ensures pictures are not corrupted when Instaloader is
unexpectedly interrupted. In the case that the last picture is corrupted
because of an interruption, Instaloader will redownload the picture.
Since the metadata is the last object saved to disk, we can consider a
post as "committed" if its json metadata file exists and is not
malformed. Instaloader should download any posts which are not
committed. Downside is commit mode requires metadata to be saved.
Alexander Graf