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.
Move InstaloaderContext's rate controlling logic into a class
RateController with fine-grained methods to enable easily changing
Instaloader's behavior regarding rate limits.
Such as for downloading hashtag feeds, as discussed in #666 and contributed by
@e2tovar.
Also change comment color to grey in codesnippets in documentation.
- Keep documentation in sync with master branch
- Run PyLint and MyPy on Github Actions
- Update Issue templates, enforce usage of issue templates, add links to
resources in Instaloader Documentation
- Update contributing.rst
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.
Now we use an own, mobile-first, responsive sphinx theme based on Bootstrap 4.
It makes navigation on the very long "Python module instaloader" page a lot
easier. Also, it looks better.
This solves all the problems we had with sphinx-bootstrap-theme.
* 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.
