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+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) 2016 Alexander Graf and André Koch-Kramer.
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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+# instaloader
+
+Simple downloader to fetch all Instagram pictures and captions from a given profile.
+
+## Usage
+
+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
+```
+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 ...]
+```
+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 ...]
+```
+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.
+
+The `--quiet` option makes it also **suitable as a cron job**.
+
+To get a list of other helpful flags, run `instaloader.py --help`.
+
+## Usage as library
+
+You may also use parts of instaloader as library to do other interesting things.
+
+For example, to get a list of all followers of a profile as well as their follower count, do
+```python
+import instaloader
+
+# login
+session = instaloader.get_logged_in_session(USERNAME)
+
+# get followees
+followees = instaloader.get_followees(PROFILES, session)
+for f in followees:
+    print("%i\t%s\t%s" % (f['follower_count'], f['username'], f['full_name']))
+```
+
+Then, you may download all pictures of all followees with
+```python
+for f in followees:
+    try:
+        instaloader.download(f['username'], session)
+    except instaloader.NonfatalException:
+        pass
+```