The commit mode ensures pictures are not corrupted when Instaloader is
unexpectedly interrupted. In the case that the last picture is corrupted
because of an interruption, Instaloader will redownload the picture.
Since the metadata is the last object saved to disk, we can consider a
post as "committed" if its json metadata file exists and is not
malformed. Instaloader should download any posts which are not
committed. Downside is commit mode requires metadata to be saved.
If Instaloader was called with --fast-update and encountered a post where
nothing has been downloaded because of flags that disable download of certain
types of media, the download was aborted. This behavior is now fixed.
Closes#183.
Fixes#178, where with `--profile-pic-only` an error message is printed
(without any further implications) when downloading profile pictures of private
profiles without being logged in.
Subdirs in profile folders were introduced with --highlights, and moving
:tagged posts there allows to further call instaloader as
instaloader [flags] */
(#154)
Squashed commit of the following (pr #161):
commit 58235a99b04a975d825f4f8f8431a6dcb7acccdc
Author: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Date: Thu Aug 16 17:57:26 2018 +0800
doc: proper fix rst syntax
commit 6620e3583c0b59e9447bcc44e5f573c61d02e6de
Author: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Date: Thu Aug 16 17:29:25 2018 +0800
doc: fix syntax
commit 7a048a3c0440ad900917eb865b72dcfb348da879
Author: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Date: Thu Aug 16 17:09:26 2018 +0800
doc: add info about read args from file.
commit c4ceaf96365422f25357c54af03aadfa7222ce44
Author: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Date: Thu Aug 16 17:05:07 2018 +0800
alter `fromfile_prefix_chars` to plus sign to avoid conflict.
commit d469b52b95de6bf86761b9315a78ecda2b033ac2
Author: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Date: Mon Aug 6 19:10:23 2018 +0800
* Allow reading arguments from file
function referenced from instagram-scraper,
which provide a convenient way to hide sensitive information.
Fixes#165.
To download (S = Stories, P = Profile Pic, p = Posts)
p --no-profile-pic
P --profile-pic-only
Pp (default)
S --no-profile-pic --stories-only
Sp --no-profile-pic --stories
SP --stories-only
SPp --stories
It seems there is a limit of how many user stories can be requested at once.
Now, Instaloader.get_stories() chunks the stories request.
Fixes#157 and fixes#134.
Override get_value() rather than get_field(), to allow chaining of item
attributes, such as --post-metadata-txt={owner_profile.profile_pic_url}.
Motivated by #151.
If using --stories or --stories-only the stories got donwloaded along
with the profiles one by one. Now, the stories get downloaded in a
similar aproach like when using the :stories target, i.e.
download_stories() gets only called once.
Profile.has_highlight_reels is broken and now always returns true.
This fixes#153.
The Post._asdict() code assumed that Post._node always is a subset of
Post._full_metadata_dict. However, it turned out, that `edge_liked_by`,
`thumbnail_src` and `thumbnail_resources` may be contained in Post._node, but
not in Post._full_metadata_dict. Now the keys of both dictionaries are saved in
the JSON file.
Fixes#137.
