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Resume a previously-aborted post download loop (#732)
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.
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.. meta::
:description:
Free command line tool to download photos from Instagram.
Scrapes public and private profiles, hashtags, stories, feeds,
saved media, and their metadata, comments and captions.
Written in Python.
.. title:: Instaloader — Download Instagram Photos and Metadata
Instaloader
===========
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**Instaloader** is a tool to download pictures (or videos) along with
their captions and other metadata from Instagram.
.. include:: ../README.rst
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With `Python <https://www.python.org/>`__ installed, do::
$ pip3 install instaloader
$ instaloader profile [profile ...]
See :ref:`install` for more options on how to install Instaloader.
**Instaloader**
- downloads **public and private profiles, hashtags, user stories,
feeds and saved media**,
- downloads **comments, geotags and captions** of each post,
- automatically **detects profile name changes** and renames the target
directory accordingly,
- allows **fine-grained customization** of filters and where to store
downloaded media,
- automatically **resumes previously-interrupted** download iterations,
- is free `open source <https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader>`__
software written in Python.
::
instaloader [--comments] [--geotags]
[--stories] [--highlights] [--tagged] [--igtv]
[--login YOUR-USERNAME] [--fast-update]
profile | "#hashtag" | %location_id |
:stories | :feed | :saved
See :ref:`download-pictures-from-instagram` for a detailed introduction on how
to use Instaloader to download pictures from Instagram.
Instaloader Documentation
-------------------------
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
installation
basic-usage
cli-options
as-module
codesnippets
troubleshooting
contributing
Useful Links
------------
- `Git Repository (on GitHub) <https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader>`__
- `PyPI Project Page <https://pypi.org/project/instaloader/>`__
- `Issue Tracker / Bug Tracker <https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader/issues>`__
- `Version History <https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader/releases>`__
Disclaimer
----------
.. include:: ../README.rst
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Contributing
------------
As an open source project, Instaloader heavily depends on the contributions from
its community. See :ref:`contributing` for how you may help Instaloader to
become an even greater tool.
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..
* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`