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The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2016 Alexander Graf and André Koch-Kramer.
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# instaloader
Simple downloader to fetch all Instagram pictures and captions from a given profile.
## Usage
Ensure having [Python](https://www.python.org/) (at least version 3.3) and
[python3-requests](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/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
```python
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
```python
for f in followees:
try:
instaloader.download(f['username'], session)
except instaloader.NonfatalException:
pass
```