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Instaloader
===========
Tool to download pictures (or videos) and captions from Instagram, from
a given set of profiles (even if private), from your feed or from all
followees of a given profile.
Usage
-----
Installation
------------
instaloader is written in Python, thus ensure having
`Python <https://www.python.org/>`__ (at least version 3.3) installed.
If you intend to use this tool under Windows, it is highly recommended
to first install
If you intend to use this tool under Windows, it is recommended
to install
`win-unicode-console <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/win_unicode_console>`__.
If you have `pip <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip>`__ installed, you
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::
./setup.py install [--user]
python3 setup.py install [--user]
(pass ``--user`` to install it for your user only instead of globally)
instaloader requires
`python3-requests <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests/>`__, which
`requests <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests>`__, which
will be installed automatically by setup.py, if not already installed.
Now, to download a set of profiles, do
How to automatically download pictures from Instagram
-----------------------------------------------------
To download a set of profiles, do
::
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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.
have a valid session cookie file.
If you want to **download all followees of a given profile**, call
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instaloader --login=your_username @profile
To **download all the pictures which you have liked**, call
To **download all the pictures from your feed which you have liked**, call
::

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license='MIT',
author='Alexander Graf, André Koch-Kramer',
author_email='mail@agraf.me, koch-kramer@web.de',
description='Tool to download pictures (or videos) and captions from Instagram, from a given '
'set of profiles (even if private), from your feed or from all followees of a '
'given profile.',
description='Tool to download Instagram pictures (or videos) and captions from a given set of '
'profiles (even if private), from your feed or from all followees of a given '
'profile.',
long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
install_requires=['requests>=2.4'],
python_requires='>=3.3',