First Alpha Release for Version 4.15

Add `possibly_pinned` to reels loop.

.github/workflows/documentation.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
           cache: 'pipenv'
       - name: "Install Dependencies"
         run: |
-          python -m pip install pipenv==2024.2.0
+          python -m pip install pipenv==2025.0.4
           pipenv --python `python --version | grep -Eo '3\.[0-9]+'` sync --dev
       - name: "Build Documentation"
         run: pipenv --python `python --version | grep -Eo '3\.[0-9]+'` run make -C docs html SPHINXOPTS="-W -n"

.github/workflows/lint.yml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
           cache: 'pipenv'
       - name: Install Dependencies
         run: |
-          python -m pip install pipenv==2024.2.0
+          python -m pip install pipenv==2025.0.4
           pipenv --python `python --version | grep -Eo '3\.[0-9]+'` sync --dev
       - name: PyLint
         run: pipenv --python `python --version | grep -Eo '3\.[0-9]+'` run pylint instaloader

.github/workflows/windows_exe.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.12"
+          python-version: "3.13"
           cache: 'pipenv'
           architecture: x64
       - name: Get the tagged version

.pylintrc

@@ -433,6 +433,7 @@ disable=bad-inline-option,
         too-many-instance-attributes,
         too-many-lines,
         too-many-locals,
+        too-many-positional-arguments,
         too-many-public-methods,
         too-many-statements,
         unnecessary-lambda-assignment,

deploy/windows/create_exe.py

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ with open('__main__.py', 'w+') as f:
     f.writelines(lines)
 
 # install dependencies and invoke PyInstaller
-commands = ["pip install pipenv==2024.2.0",
+commands = ["pip install pipenv==2025.0.4",
             f"pipenv --python {sys.version_info.major}.{sys.version_info.minor} sync --dev",
             "pipenv run pyinstaller --log-level=DEBUG instaloader.spec"]
 

docs/cli-options.rst

@@ -208,22 +208,24 @@ Instead of :option:`--login`, it is possible to use
 
 .. option:: --load-cookies BROWSER-NAME, -b BROWSER-NAME
 
-   Use Instagram cookie in your browser to login.
-   This feature requires the browser_cookie3 library.
-   Compatible with :option:`--cookiefile` if you want to load cookies from browser profiles.
-   Incompatible with :option:`--login` due to potential username mismatch between user input and browser login.
-   Supported browsers: Brave, Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Firefox, LibreWolf, Opera, Opera_GX, Safari and Vivaldi.
+   Load Instagram session cookies from a browser instead of using Instaloader's own login mechanism.
+   This method requires the `browser_cookie3 <https://github.com/borisbabic/browser_cookie3>`__ library.
+   By default, cookies are loaded from the browser's main profile, but you can specify a custom cookie file using :option:`--cookiefile`.
 
-   In subsequent runs, you can just use :option:`--login` to reuse the
-   same session, which is saved by Instaloader.
+   Since :option:`--load-cookies` and :option:`--login` are alternative ways to acquire a session, they cannot be used together when initially acquiring a session.
+
+   Supported browsers: Arc, Brave, Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Firefox, LibreWolf, Opera, Opera_GX, Safari, and Vivaldi.
+
+   Once logged in via browser cookies, Instaloader saves the session, allowing you to use :option:`--login` in subsequent runs.
 
    .. versionadded:: 4.11
 
 .. option:: --cookiefile COOKIE-FILE, -B COOKIE-FILE
 
-   Cookie file path of a browser profile to load cookies from.
+   Specifies a cookie file path for :option:`--load-cookies` to load cookies from a particular browser profile.
+   This option must be used together with :option:`--load-cookies` and does not work on its own.
 
-  .. versionadded:: 4.11
+   .. versionadded:: 4.11
 
 .. option:: --sessionfile SESSIONFILE, -f SESSIONFILE
 
@@ -310,7 +312,7 @@ How to Download
 .. option:: --user-agent USER_AGENT
 
    User Agent to use for HTTP requests. Per default, Instaloader pretends being
-   Chrome/127 on Linux.
+   Chrome/138 on Linux.
 
 .. option:: --max-connection-attempts N
 

instaloader/__init__.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """Download pictures (or videos) along with their captions and other metadata from Instagram."""
 
 
-__version__ = '4.14.1'
+__version__ = '4.15a1'
 
 
 try:

instaloader/instaloader.py

@@ -737,19 +737,20 @@ class Instaloader:
                         suffix: Optional[str] = str(edge_number)
                         if '{filename}' in self.filename_pattern:
                             suffix = None
-                        if self.download_pictures and (not sidecar_node.is_video or self.download_video_thumbnails):
+                        video_url = sidecar_node.video_url
+                        if self.download_pictures and (video_url is None or self.download_video_thumbnails):
                             # pylint:disable=cell-var-from-loop
                             sidecar_filename = self.__prepare_filename(filename_template,
                                                                        lambda: sidecar_node.display_url)
                             # Download sidecar picture or video thumbnail (--no-pictures implies --no-video-thumbnails)
                             downloaded &= self.download_pic(filename=sidecar_filename, url=sidecar_node.display_url,
                                                             mtime=post.date_local, filename_suffix=suffix)
-                        if sidecar_node.is_video and self.download_videos:
+                        if video_url is not None and self.download_videos:
                             # pylint:disable=cell-var-from-loop
                             sidecar_filename = self.__prepare_filename(filename_template,
-                                                                       lambda: sidecar_node.video_url)
+                                                                       lambda: video_url)
                             # Download sidecar video if desired
-                            downloaded &= self.download_pic(filename=sidecar_filename, url=sidecar_node.video_url,
+                            downloaded &= self.download_pic(filename=sidecar_filename, url=video_url,
                                                             mtime=post.date_local, filename_suffix=suffix)
                 else:
                     downloaded = False
@@ -1303,6 +1304,7 @@ class Instaloader:
             post_filter,
             owner_profile=profile,
             takewhile=posts_takewhile,
+            possibly_pinned=3,
         )
         if latest_stamps is not None and reels.first_item is not None:
             latest_stamps.set_last_reels_timestamp(profile.username, reels.first_item.date_local)

instaloader/instaloadercontext.py

@@ -32,15 +32,15 @@ def copy_session(session: requests.Session, request_timeout: Optional[float] = N
 
 def default_user_agent() -> str:
     return ('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 '
-            '(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36')
+            '(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36')
 
 
 def default_iphone_headers() -> Dict[str, Any]:
-    return {'User-Agent': 'Instagram 273.0.0.16.70 (iPad13,8; iOS 16_3; en_US; en-US; ' \
-                          'scale=2.00; 2048x2732; 452417278) AppleWebKit/420+',
+    return {'User-Agent': 'Instagram 361.0.0.35.82 (iPad13,8; iOS 18_0; en_US; en-US; ' \
+                          'scale=2.00; 2048x2732; 674117118) AppleWebKit/420+',
             'x-ads-opt-out': '1',
             'x-bloks-is-panorama-enabled': 'true',
-            'x-bloks-version-id': '01507c21540f73e2216b6f62a11a5b5e51aa85491b72475c080da35b1228ddd6',
+            'x-bloks-version-id': '16b7bd25c6c06886d57c4d455265669345a2d96625385b8ee30026ac2dc5ed97',
             'x-fb-client-ip': 'True',
             'x-fb-connection-type': 'wifi',
             'x-fb-http-engine': 'Liger',

instaloader/structures.py

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class PostSidecarNode(NamedTuple):
     """Item of a Sidecar Post."""
     is_video: bool
     display_url: str
-    video_url: str
+    video_url: Optional[str]
 
 
 PostSidecarNode.is_video.__doc__ = "Whether this node is a video."