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:description:
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Documentation of Instaloader module, a powerful and intuitive
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Python library to download Instagram media and metadata.
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.. _python-module-instaloader:
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Python Module :mod:`instaloader`
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.. module:: instaloader
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.. highlight:: python
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Instaloader exposes its internally used methods and structures as a Python
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module, making it a powerful and intuitive Python API for Instagram,
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allowing to further customize obtaining media and metadata.
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Start with getting an instance of :class:`Instaloader`::
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import instaloader
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# Get instance
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L = instaloader.Instaloader()
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# Optionally, login or load session
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L.login(USER, PASSWORD) # (login)
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L.interactive_login(USER) # (ask password on terminal)
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L.load_session_from_file(USER) # (load session created w/
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# `instaloader -l USERNAME`)
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:mod:`instaloader` provides the :class:`Post` structure, which represents a
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picture, video or sidecar (set of multiple pictures/videos) posted in a user's
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profile. :class:`Instaloader` provides methods to iterate over Posts from a
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certain source::
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for post in instaloader.Hashtag.from_name(L.context, 'cat').get_posts():
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# post is an instance of instaloader.Post
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L.download_post(post, target='#cat')
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:class:`Post` instances can be created with:
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- :func:`Post.from_shortcode`
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Use a Post shortcode (part of the Post URL,
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``https://www.instagram.com/p/SHORTCODE/``) to create a Post
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object::
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post = Post.from_shortcode(L.context, SHORTCODE)
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- :meth:`Profile.get_posts`
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All media of a :class:`Profile`.
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- :meth:`Profile.get_saved_posts`
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Media that the user marked as saved (:class:`Profile` must be own profile
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for this to work)
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- :meth:`Instaloader.get_feed_posts`
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Media in the user's feed.
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- :meth:`Instaloader.get_explore_posts`
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Media that is suggested by Instagram to explore.
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- :meth:`Hashtag.get_posts`
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Media associated with given hashtag.
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With the :class:`Profile` class, Instaloader also makes it easy to access
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metadata of a Profile. :class:`Profile` instances can be created with:
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- :meth:`Profile.from_username`::
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profile = Profile.from_username(L.context, USERNAME)
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- :meth:`Profile.from_id`
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given its User ID. This allows to easily lookup a Profile's username given
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its ID::
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Profile.from_id(L.context, USERID).username
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- :meth:`Profile.get_followees`
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Profiles that are followed by given user.
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- :meth:`Profile.get_followers`
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Profiles that follow given user.
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- :attr:`Post.owner_profile`, :attr:`Story.owner_profile`, :attr:`StoryItem.owner_profile`
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Owner profile of particular object.
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- :meth:`Post.get_likes`
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Profiles that liked a given :class:`Post`
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- :attr:`PostComment.owner`
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Profile of a Post comment.
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For a list of a few code examples that use the Instaloader module, see
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:ref:`codesnippets`.
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The reference of the classes and functions provided by the :mod:`instaloader` module is
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divided into the following subsections:
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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module/instaloader
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module/structures
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module/nodeiterator
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module/instaloadercontext
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module/exceptions
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