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instaloader
Simple downloader to fetch all Instagram pictures and captions from a given profile.
Usage
Ensure having Python (at least version 3.3) and python3-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
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
for f in followees:
try:
instaloader.download(f['username'], session)
except instaloader.NonfatalException:
pass