Another API-less Instagram pictures and videos downloader.
Project description
Not all treasure’s silver and gold, mate.
InstaLooter is a program that can download any picture or video associated from an Instagram profile, without any API access. It can be seen as a re-implementation of the now deprecated InstaRaider developed by @akurtovic.
Requirements
BeautifulSoup |
HTML parsing |
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docopt |
CLI arguments parsing |
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progressbar2 |
Dynamic output in CLI |
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requests |
HTTP handling |
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six |
Python 2/3 compatibility |
Usage
InstaLooter comes with its CLI:
$ instaLooter <username> <directory> [options] $ instaLooter tag <hashtag> <directory> [options]
Arguments
- username
the username of the instagram account to download pictures and videos from.
- hashtag
the hashtag to download pictures and videos from.
- directory
the directory to download files into.
Options
- -n NUM, --num-to-dl NUM
number of maximum new posts to download (if not specified all posts are downloaded).
- -m, --add-metadata
add date and caption metadata to downloaded pictures (requires piexif and PIL/Pillow)
- -v, --get-videos
also download videos.
- -j JOBS, --jobs JOBS
the number of parallel threads to use to download files. It is advised to use a value of at least 12 as Instagram profile pages display 12 medias at a time in order to insure parallel download of all files. [default: 16]
- -c CRED, --credentials CRED
the login and password to use to login to Instagram, if needed (for instance: downloading medias from a private account you follow). [format: login:password]
- -q, --quiet
do not produce any output.
Installation
From PyPI
$ pip install instaLooter # requires super-user rights
From GitHub
$ git clone https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter
$ cd InstaLooter
$ pip install . # requires super-user rights
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