There's a new kind of post that includes multiple images. Instalooter currently only downloads the first one.
An example: https://www.instagram.com/p/BRCAHTQhIW2/
You can move through the pictures by pressing the side arrows.

My goal is to get username, thumbnail url and likes count from photos of a given hashtag.
My code used to work fine, the last few days I started to get error:

Using:
for mymedia in looter.medias(with_pbar=False, media_count=50): owner_info = looter.get_owner_info(mymedia["code"]) likes = int(mymedia['likes']['count']) username = owner_info["username"] thumb_url = mymedia["thumbnail_src"].split("?")[0] purl = mymedia['display_src'].split("?")[0]

Now I get:
owner_info = looter.get_owner_info(mymedia["code"])
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instaLooter/core.py", line 353, in get_owner_info
return data['entry_data']['PostPage'][0]['media']['owner']
KeyError: u'media'

hi, i want to call the instaLooter API on another python script.
can you give me an example?

from instaLooter import InstaLooter, __init__
hashtagDump = "hashtag here"
DownloadPath = "dump location"

InstaLooter(hastag hashtagDump, DownloadPath, -n 10, -T "@{username}---{id}")

give me

InstaLooter(hastag hashtagDump, dump, -n 10, -T "@{username}---{id}")   
                                 ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

The code examples in the documentation that describe how to get a set of all users that have commented on a profile no longer works. Same goes for getting tagged users. They no longer recognize the keys and return KeyErrors.

It's useful in case you wanna open the original post to read the comments, for example.

This blog post has some info about the available properties.

Hi,

I am trying to download a hashtag with metadata added, but I keep getting the same error related to 'full_name'

my input: instaLooter hashtag fluoxetine ./Data/ --add-metadata -n 200

the output:
...
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/instaLooter.py", line 96, in _add_metadata
piexif.ImageIFD.Artist: "Image creator, {}".format(self.owner.metadata['full_name']),
KeyError: 'full_name'

There's something called ChromeIGStory that lets you view/download Stories in the browser so I'm curious if it'd be possible for InstaLooter to ever be able to just download stories.

Hi. Tried to download some photos and this is what I get:

/usr/local/bin/instaLooter instagram_profile Images/downloaded/inst/
Loading pages |N/A%(0 of 43)| |Elapsed Time: 0:00:00 |ETA: --:--:--Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/instaLooter", line 11, in
load_entry_point('instaLooter==0.8.2', 'console_scripts', 'instaLooter')()
File "/home/korben/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/instaLooter/cli.py", line 137, in main
new_only=args['--new'],
File "/home/korben/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/instaLooter/core.py", line 401, in download
new_only=new_only
File "/home/korben/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/instaLooter/core.py", line 472, in _fill_media_queue
medias_queued, stop = self._add_media_to_queue(media, condition, media_count, medias_queued, new_only)
File "/home/korben/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/instaLooter/core.py", line 484, in _add_media_to_queue
if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(self.directory, media_basename)):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 78, in join
path += b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Any suggestions?

After running the command succesfully for some other hashtags, I get the following output and no media. Now, even for the cases for which it was running correctly, I am unable to download anything else. Am I missing something here ?

python -m instaLooter hashtag muhammadali ~/Desktop/Event_Summarization/TOMM/muhammadali/insta/3rdJune/ --add-metadata --template {id}.{likescount}--{commentscount}--{datetime} --time 2016-06-03:2016-06-03
Loading pages | 0%(488 of 60903)|# |Elapsed Time: 0:06:53 |ETA: 14:13:0313:27:18 - WARNING - No medias found.
Loading pages |N/A%(0 of N/A)|

(Feature request)

Hi althonos, thanks for this useful project. Can we implement a feature which helps us to download images uploaded in a certain timeframe, like in the last week or so, or after a certain date (between dates, etc...)? This can be useful if one is following a popular username, or if one wants to sync local folders with online albums.

Got a mail request requesting to be able to provide instaLooter with a file containing a list of profiles/directories to download files from/into.

Suggested format was JSON, but I think YAML would be easier to edit from an user POV. Easiest would be a YAML list following the exact syntax you'd use if you ran individual jobs. For instance:

- user-we-dont-want-vids-from dir1
- user-we-want-vids-from dir2 --get-videos

Even better, it could be possible to give parameters you'd like to use everywhere (so you'd not have to give them back at each run):

params: 
  -c MYLOGIN --get-videos --add-metadata
jobs:
- user1 dir1
- user2 dir2 -N

I need put my username on Instalooper for download images to the private perfil.

instaLooter 0.8.1 | Python 3.6.0 | Windows 7 64
Some images fail to download when using -T

Instalooter instagram -T {username}_{date}_{code} -v -n 50
In my test, it downloaded 40 files.

Example of an error:

Exception in thread Thread-12:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 522, in _make_filename
assert value is not None
AssertionError

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\threading.py", line 916, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\worker.py", line 44, in run
self._download_video(media)
File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\worker.py", line 109, in _download_video
video_name = os.path.join(self.directory, self.owner._make_filename(data))
File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 524, in _make_filename
media = self.get_post_info(media['code'])
KeyError: 'code'

Instalooter instagram -v -n 50 downloads 50 as expected.

C:\Users\User\Documents>instaLooter -n franiothepug
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\python27\lib\runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "c:\python27\lib\runpy.py", line 72, in run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "C:\Python27\Scripts\instaLooter.exe_main.py", line 5, in
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\instaLooter.py", line 135
_RX_CSRFTOKEN_JSON = re.compile(rb'"csrf_token": "([a-zA-Z0-9]*)"')
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Even with correct parameters for the command, this error still seems to come up even when specifying the directory

From my understanding there is still no such option/feature built in to instalooter:
Would it be possible to skip downloading the pictures of a given user or hashhtag but only download the videos? That would be amazing. Something like:

--videos-only or shortly: -vo

Can InstaLooter be run as a cron job like the following

0 21 * * * instaLooter [user] /public_html/InstaLooter/downloads/[user] -T {username}_{datetime} -q -m -N

Previously had Instraider working on the machine, had issues after upgrading to newer Firefox and upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04:

~/InstaLooter$ ./instaLooter.py -j 8-v -n 4000 test /home/user1/Pictures/intra/test/
./instaLooter.py: line 3: author: command not found
./instaLooter.py: line 4: author_email: command not found
./instaLooter.py: line 5: version: command not found
from: can't read /var/mail/contextlib
from: can't read /var/mail/bs4
./instaLooter.py: line 25: try:: command not found
./instaLooter.py: line 28: except: command not found
./instaLooter.py: line 29: PIL: command not found
./instaLooter.py: line 31: try:: command not found
./instaLooter.py: line 33: PARSER: command not found
./instaLooter.py: line 34: except: command not found
./instaLooter.py: line 35: PARSER: command not found
./instaLooter.py: line 37: syntax error near unexpected token (' ./instaLooter.py: line 37: class InstaDownloader(threading.Thread):'

1. Is there any way to get random user name or full list of instagram users?
2. Is there any way to get user subscribers or users that current user subscribed to?
3. Is there any way to get also photos from other users on those current user is marked?
4. Is there any way to get list of users from comments of current user?

Reported by @bangaio in #42, traceback:

I found some weird exception in the new version, but I'm not sure what causes it. Seems to happen randomly.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main "__main__", mod_spec) File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\Scripts\instaLooter.exe\__main__.py", line 9, in <module> File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\__main__.py", line 130, in main new_only=args['--new'], File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 388, in download new_only=new_only) File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 445, in _fill_media_queue for media in self.medias(media_count=media_count, with_pbar=with_pbar, timeframe=timeframe): File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 286, in _timeless_medias for page in self.pages(media_count=media_count, with_pbar=with_pbar): File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 258, in pages warnings.warn("Profile {} is private, retry after logging in.".format(self.target)) File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\warnings.py", line 99, in _showwarnmsg msg.file, msg.line) File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\utils.py", line 64, in warn_windows "{msg}").format(t=time.localtime(), msg=message), file=sys.stderr) NameError: name 'time' is not defined```

Probably caused by a missing import statement.

As I mentioned earlier here, earlier, I was unable to use exif metadata to rename existing downloaded files. Now I can do so, thanks to exiftool, but (and this is one of the reasons why I couldn't get exiftool working earlier) I saw that for all recently downloaded images, the DateTimeOriginal and UserComment (along with some other) tags are missing in the metadata, meaning that they are not being written. Is it a problem with Instagram? I'm curious since the template system works fine. And this problem holds for only recently downloaded images.

Also, could you let me know how video tags are being added? Tags are not added in downloaded videos. That's fine.

Thanks a lot.

I think great option will be save just links to images instead of images itself, it can be helpfull for minimize internet traffic and save disk space.

It can not work since yesterday night and I tried three accounts, all got same error, hope you can update it.The error message is shown as bellow:

15:41:55 - SUCCESS - Logged in.
Loading pages |N/A%(0 of 4167)| |Elapsed Time: 0:00:00 |ETA: --:--:--Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/channelcryster/anaconda/bin/instaLooter", line 11, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/Users/channelcryster/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/instaLooter/cli.py", line 137, in main
new_only=args['--new'],
File "/Users/channelcryster/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/instaLooter/core.py", line 401, in download
new_only=new_only
File "/Users/channelcryster/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/instaLooter/core.py", line 468, in _fill_media_queue
medias_queued, stop = self._add_media_to_queue(media, condition, media_count, medias_queued, new_only)
File "/Users/channelcryster/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/instaLooter/core.py", line 479, in _add_media_to_queue
media_basename = self._make_filename(media)
File "/Users/channelcryster/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/instaLooter/core.py", line 520, in _make_filename
media = self.get_post_info(media['code'])
File "/Users/channelcryster/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/instaLooter/core.py", line 448, in get_post_info
media = self._get_shared_data(res)['entry_data']['PostPage'][0]['media']
KeyError: u'media'

When using instaLooter python api (import instaLooter)
how do I login with my credentials?

In case anyone didn't know (I didn't until today) Instagram recently introduced this feature.

Currently what InstaLooter does with a multi post is just download the first image downscaled. Here is an example of one of these posts - https://www.instagram.com/p/BRHecUuFhPl/

When downloading from a username it shows much less post than what the user has, and once downloading finished shows the post count correct and then done.
eg. Total posts 1500
downloading: 0% (0 of 170)
then
downloading: 10% (170 of 170) -> then 1500 of 1500 done

But only 170 downloaded.

Is this possible? Instead of downloading ALL of "Instagram"'s images, i would like to save only one
For example:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BP0M7XZjMar/

Thanks.

When trying to download media from a private profile (either not logged in or logged in but fetching media from a profile you don't follow), then the iteration will be infinite and InstaLooter.medias will never yield anything.

At times some pictures will have something like this /p480x480 in the direct URL so when InstaLooter downloads the picture it's at a slightly lower resolution than it could be. Here is an example

• Original direct URL
• /p480x480 removed
• Source of the Picture

Although it's not always the same number, it is as far as I've seen always in the same location of the URL which is after the /e35 and before /15876204_370847143275022_6186941535674695680_n.jpg

I know the difference in resolution here is very minor but at times it's a bit more extreme. I'm hoping InstaLooter can possibly be made to detect and remove when something like /p480x480 is present. I'd appreciate any responses

How do I get this same result as
-T {username}-{likescount}-{width}x{height}.{id}
using the instaLooter python api?

This issue happens randomly with Windows; on different profiles. Doesn't happen at all with my linux install.

Loading pages |100%(87 of 87)|##################################################################################|Elapsed Time: 0:01:47 |ETA:  0:00:00
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "c:\python27\lib\runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)

  File "c:\python27\lib\runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals

  File "C:\Python27\Scripts\instaLooter.exe\__main__.py", line 9, in <module>

  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\cli.py", line 130, in main
    new_only=args['--new'],

  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 388, in download
    new_only=new_only)

  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 451, in _fill_media_queue
    medias_queued, stop = self._add_media_to_queue(media, condition, media_count, medias_queued, new_only)

  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 462, in _add_media_to_queue
    media_basename = self._make_filename(media)

  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 503, in _make_filename
    media = self.get_post_info(media['code'])

  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 431, in get_post_info
    media = self._get_shared_data(res)['entry_data']['PostPage'][0]['media']

  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 445, in _get_shared_data
    return json.loads(self._RX_SHARED_DATA.match(script.text).group(1))

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'

After an excellent script to mass download got run, I started getting code errors. Is there a limit to IG connections?

Edit: That was an awful issue submittal. Allow me to elaborate:

I ran this as a script. It parses a .txt file and passes the line items to the instaLooter python script:

#!/bin/bash
a="$(wc -l < /mnt/md0/list.txt)"
((a++))
# echo "$a"
counter=1
while [ $counter -le $a ]
do
	STR="$(head -$counter /mnt/md0/list.txt | tail -1)"
	python -m instaLooter $STR "/mnt/md0/"$STR -v -N -c username:password
	((counter++))

done

Works great for the first few, then starts throwing connection errors:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instaLooter/__main__.py", line 122, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instaLooter/__main__.py", line 96, in main
    looter.login(login, password)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instaLooter/core.py", line 178, in login
    raise SystemError("Login error: check your connection")
SystemError: Login error: check your connection

When I try to run app via CLI inteface with username that is not exist it gives me an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/instaLooter", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('instaLooter==0.4.0', 'console_scripts', 'instaLooter')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instaLooter/__main__.py", line 82, in main
    new_only=args['--new'],
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instaLooter/core.py", line 355, in download
    new_only=new_only)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instaLooter/core.py", line 401, in _fill_media_queue
    for media in self.medias(media_count=media_count, with_pbar=with_pbar, timeframe=timeframe):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instaLooter/core.py", line 246, in _timeless_medias
    for page in self.pages(media_count=media_count, with_pbar=with_pbar):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/instaLooter/core.py", line 200, in pages
    media_count = data['entry_data'][self._page_name][0][self._section_name]['media']['count']
KeyError: u'ProfilePage'

maybe better way is to print warning?

p.s. Users frequently change their names, but I guess their internal ID remains unchanged, is there any way to match user names and user ID and get new user name by ID?

seems like the command line should be 'instalooter' rather than 'instaLooter'

The idea is that instead of logging in multiple times, you could login once.

format:

username:directory,username2:directory2,username3:directory3

you could test to see if it is a multiple user string by looking for the colon...

internally then,
{account1: directory1, account2: directory2}
and then loop through them....

I can't get the login method using the --credentials / -c argument to work. I have used the format instaLooter some_channel folder -c my_username:my_pw but it always throws an error message unrecognized arguments: -c at me. what am I doing wrong here?

Hello,

Thanks for this app.

When I use : instaLooter hashtag sunset

I get following error message
12:33:01 - WARNING - Could not find page of user: hashtag
12:33:01 - WARNING - No medias found.

It seems that I cannot get pictures based on a specific hashtag.

Do I do something wrong?

On most recent version 0.9.3 using a metadata -m switch it fails to retrieve caption attribute and throw errors.

Can be reproduced by this command:
instalooter -v -m awwwwshoot_ob

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "...\lib\threading.py", line 911, in _bootstrap_innerself.run()
File "...\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\worker.py", line 47, in runself._download_photo(media)
File "...\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\worker.py", line 97, in _download_photoself._add_metadata(photo_name, media)
File "...\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\worker.py", line 81, in _add_metadatapiexif.ExifIFD.UserComment: metadata.get('caption', '').encode('utf-8'),
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'encode'

This part of code (worker.py, line 81) has also brought to light some weird refactoring bug. The idea of the statement was obviously to return '' if there was no caption in metadata dictionary but for some reason the caption key was associated with None value already. It should test it for None and not rely on get method default return value. Or the caption key shouldn't be added to the metadata dictionary (or set to '' ) in _sidecar_to_media method of core.py if no caption was found in media.

Python 3.6.0 on Windows 7 x64

>Instalooter nintendo --time 2017-02-05:2017-02-09 -q
←[35m23:14:38←[0m - ←[33mWARNING←[0m - ←[39mNo medias found.←[0m

But thisweek works correctly.

An exception is thrown when downloading multi video post

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/threading.py", line 916, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/instaLooter/worker.py", line 44, in run
    self._download_video(media)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/instaLooter/worker.py", line 120, in _download_video
    video_url = data["video_url"]
KeyError: 'video_url'

Python 3.6.0 on Windows 7 x64

If the profile name doesn't exist, I get the following error and then the scripts hangs. I have to kill python.exe from the Task Manager.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 229, in pages
    media_info = data['entry_data'][self._page_name][0][self._section_name]['media']
KeyError: 'ProfilePage'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\Scripts\instaLooter.exe\__main__.py", line 9, in <module>
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\__main__.py", line 113, in main
    new_only=args['--new'],
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 388, in download
    new_only=new_only)
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 437, in _fill_media_queue
    for media in self.medias(media_count=media_count, with_pbar=with_pbar, timeframe=timeframe):
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 286, in _timeless_medias
    for page in self.pages(media_count=media_count, with_pbar=with_pbar):
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 231, in pages
    warnings.warn("Could not find page of user: {}".format(self.target), stacklevel=1)
  File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\warnings.py", line 99, in _showwarnmsg
    msg.file, msg.line)
TypeError: warn_with_hues() takes from 4 to 5 positional arguments but 6 were given

Same issue happens if it's a private profile and credentials aren't entered, and if the time option is given and there's no new pictures to download.

Not sure if this is a problem on my end since I don't have much experience with python. I did try it from an elevated command prompt just in case and the same thing occured.

instaLooter-0.8.2-py2

{date} filename template cause error:

instalooter -v -T {date}_{id} -m ...

File "...\site-packages\instaLooter\core.py", line 48, in
'date': lambda m: datetime.date.fromtimestamp(m['date']) if 'date' in m else None,
TypeError: an integer is required (got type NoneType)

It also throw errors without the {date} template (still download files though):

instalooter -v -T {id} -m

File "...\lib\threading.py", line 911, in _bootstrap_innerself.run()
File "...\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\worker.py", line 46, in runself._download_photo(media)
File "...\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\worker.py", line 94, in _download_photoself._add_metadata(photo_name, media)
File "...\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\worker.py", line 77, in _add_metadatapiexif.ExifIFD.DateTimeOriginal: datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(metadata['date']).isoformat(),
TypeError: a float is required

instalooter --version

instaLooter 0.4.0

There doesn't seem to be an option to grab just the new files anymore -N and --new results in instalooter showing usage.

For images it only downloads new ones however in videos (when using -v option) it is not the case it always tries to download all of them however it fails (throwing exception) as all of them are already downloaded.

Hello, thanks for this great project.
Is it possible to modify it to download photos of a given hashtag?
Or better yet, just output the direct urls, usernames, like counts...

Are already downloaded images skipped at second time? I tried to download photos from same user 2 times, seems download time is the same, so as I understand photos not skipped, but downloaded twice and overwritten?

Described by @cyrusclarke: when using the --time flag on a tag with a lot of pictures/videos, the program returns and states that no media could be found.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/instaLooter", line 11, in
load_entry_point('instaLooter==0.4.0', 'console_scripts', 'instaLooter')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/instaLooter-0.4.0-py3.5.egg/instaLooter/main.py", line 58, in main
directory=os.path.expanduser(args.get('', os.getcwd())),
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/posixpath.py", line 229, in expanduser
if not path.startswith(tilde):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'

Great program, works as intended, but i have some feature suggestions.

1. Integrate Instagram username into filename.
2. The original upload date is displayed on Instagram. Is there a way to put that date into the images EXIF data? That makes it possible to sort the images on the date it was "taken" (uploaded)

Reg.
JFLarsen

I'm aware of the enhancement #26 to download original full resolution picture however I think there's another pattern should be considered that starts with s instead of p
As in this link: https://ig-s-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/16583963_1841749269425180_6566358663135494144_n.jpg

Since the {datetime} template option puts the date and time in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss, any attempt to open a file for writing with that option on Windows will invariably fail because the colon is a reserved character in Windows filenames. Here's an example traceback from a command line invocation run with -T {datetime}:

Exception in thread Thread-3:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\python35-32\lib\threading.py", line 914, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "c:\python35-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\worker.py", line 41, in run
    self._download_photo(media)
  File "c:\python35-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\worker.py", line 85, in _download_photo
    self._dl(photo_url, photo_name)
  File "c:\python35-32\lib\site-packages\instaLooter\worker.py", line 108, in _dl
    with open(dest, 'wb') as dest_file:
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '.\\2017-01-12 16:14:41.jpg'

(there are similar exceptions in the other threads)

I did a hacky fix so I could use the program as desired by simply appending .replace(':', '.') to the calls to _make_filename() in worker.py. I've had no issues since, so I'm fairly confident this was the only problem.

I'm a novice, so I'm not quite sure what the proper fix ought to be (adding another template option that explicitly doesn't use colons or changing the current template, detecting the OS and silently swapping the colons for an alternate character, something else entirely).