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.
If Instaloader was called with --fast-update and encountered a post where
nothing has been downloaded because of flags that disable download of certain
types of media, the download was aborted. This behavior is now fixed.
Closes #183.
Fixes #178, where with `--profile-pic-only` an error message is printed
(without any further implications) when downloading profile pictures of private
profiles without being logged in.
Subdirs in profile folders were introduced with --highlights, and moving
:tagged posts there allows to further call instaloader as
instaloader [flags] */
(#154)
Squashed commit of the following (pr #161):
commit 58235a99b0
Author: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Date: Thu Aug 16 17:57:26 2018 +0800
doc: proper fix rst syntax
commit 6620e3583c
Author: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Date: Thu Aug 16 17:29:25 2018 +0800
doc: fix syntax
commit 7a048a3c04
Author: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Date: Thu Aug 16 17:09:26 2018 +0800
doc: add info about read args from file.
commit c4ceaf9636
Author: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Date: Thu Aug 16 17:05:07 2018 +0800
alter `fromfile_prefix_chars` to plus sign to avoid conflict.
commit d469b52b95
Author: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Date: Mon Aug 6 19:10:23 2018 +0800
* Allow reading arguments from file
function referenced from instagram-scraper,
which provide a convenient way to hide sensitive information.
Fixes #165.
To download (S = Stories, P = Profile Pic, p = Posts)
p --no-profile-pic
P --profile-pic-only
Pp (default)
S --no-profile-pic --stories-only
Sp --no-profile-pic --stories
SP --stories-only
SPp --stories
This reverts commit 8423e3bd00. The channel did
not have as much activity as expected and an IRC channel does not work if there
are not at least a few people in it.
It seems there is a limit of how many user stories can be requested at once.
Now, Instaloader.get_stories() chunks the stories request.
Fixes #157 and fixes #134.
