erjemin/instaloader
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Wiki Activity

Add codesnippet for almost chronological order

Browse Source 
Such as for downloading hashtag feeds, as discussed in #666 and contributed by
@e2tovar.

Also change comment color to grey in codesnippets in documentation.
This commit is contained in:
Alexander Graf
2020-06-21 19:38:16 +02:00
parent 66b3ec6928
commit e21d34124d
5 changed files with 51 additions and 8 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

13
docs/codesnippets.rst
View File

@@ -28,8 +28,9 @@ Download Posts in a Specific Period
-----------------------------------
To only download Instagram pictures (and metadata) that are within a specific
period, you can play around with :func:`~itertools.dropwhile` and
:func:`~itertools.takewhile` from :mod:`itertools` like in this snippet.
period, you can simply use :func:`~itertools.dropwhile` and
:func:`~itertools.takewhile` from :mod:`itertools` on a generator that returns
Posts in **exact chronological order**, such as :meth:`Profile.get_posts`.
.. literalinclude:: codesnippets/121_since_until.py
@@ -37,6 +38,14 @@ See also :class:`Post`, :meth:`Instaloader.download_post`.
Discussed in :issue:`121`.
The code example with :func:`~itertools.dropwhile` and
:func:`~itertools.takewhile` makes the assumption that the post iterator returns
posts in exact chronological order. As discussed in :issue:`666`, the following
approach fits for an **almost chronological order**, where up to *k* older posts
are inserted into an otherwise chronological order, such as an Hashtag feed.
.. literalinclude:: codesnippets/666_historical_hashtag_data.py
Likes of a Profile / Ghost Followers
------------------------------------