basketcase 0.0.1

Fetch resources from Instagram

BasketCase

Fetch resources from Instagram.

Main dependencies

• requests
• youtube-dl
• Pillow

Development setup

1. Create a virtual environment with venv and cd to the root directory of the project.
2. Ensure pip is up-to-date

pip install --upgrade pip

3. Install the dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Install the package in editable mode

pip install -e .

Usage

Create a text file (e.g. urls.txt) and populate it with resource URLs:

https://www.instagram.com/p/<post_id>/
https://www.instagram.com/p/<post_id>/
https://www.instagram.com/p/<post_id>/
https://www.instagram.com/p/<post_id>/

Pipe the file to the script, passing the session cookie as its argument.

cat urls.txt | basketcase <session_cookie>

Downloaded resources will be stored in the current working directory (i.e. $PWD/basketcase/).