Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

v2.4.4_ - 2020-07-15

Changed

  • Bumped verboselogs to v14 in requirements.

v2.4.3_ - 2020-06-25

Changed

  • Bumped tenacity to v6 in requirements.

Fixed

  • Change in Instagram login policy causing plaintext password to stop working.

v2.4.2 - 2019-12-27

Changed

  • CLI --time option will now always use higher and lower time given as the timeframe, independently of the order they are given.

Fixed

  • JSON files also get a proper timestamp set (pr #275).

v2.4.1 - 2019-12-10

Fixed

  • Issue with additional data not being loaded from certain pages (#271) (pr #273)

v2.4.0 - 2019-06-29

Fixed

  • Attempt fix for rhx_gis issue (#247) (pr #248)

  • Fix crashes when downloading hashtag medias

Changed

  • Removed fake-useragent dependency.

  • Use a custom HTTP server to detect the user agent of the default web browser.

v2.3.4 - 2019-02-22

Fixed

  • Bumped supported fs version to ~=2.1.

v2.3.3 - 2019-02-11

Fixed

  • Bumped supported fs version to 2.3.0.

v2.3.2 - 2019-01-06

Added

  • Add zero padding for date and time in filenames (pr #224)

Changed

  • Add tests to source distribution (pr #228).

  • Bumped supported fs version to 2.2.0.

v2.3.1 - 2018-10-13

Fixed

  • Allow extracting post codes of length 10 from URLs.

v2.3.0 - 2018-09-05

Changed

  • Bumped required tenacity version to 5.0.

v2.2.0 - 2018-08-19

Changed

  • Bumped required fs version to 2.1.0.

v2.1.0 - 2018-07-31

Added

  • Posts can now be downloaded by giving directly the post URL (implement #184).

Fixed

  • Batch will now log the name of the current account as well as occuring errors (fix #185)

  • CLI login will now properly display logger messages.

  • Library loggers do not have a logging.StreamHandler set by default anymore.

  • Attempt fixing login procedure in InstaLooter._login.

Changed

  • Trying to download media from an non-existing user will display a nicer message: user not found: '...' (fix #194).

  • Batch mode will now continue to the next job if any error occurs, showing an error message instead of crashing (fix #185).

v2.0.3 - 2018-05-29

Fixed

  • Use the webpage shared data to find the CSRF token instead of response cookies.

v2.0.2 - 2018-05-17

Changed

  • Bump coloredlogs required version to 10.0.

  • Use verboselogs as the backend logging library.

v2.0.1 - 2018-04-18

Changed

  • Updated the query hash in ProfileIterator (although previous seemed to keep working).

Fixed

  • RHX-GIS computation not using the CSRF token anymore.

  • Lowered PageIterator.PAGE_SIZE to 50 to comply with Instagram.

v2.0.0 - 2018-04-16

Changed

  • Passing a pre-initialised Session to PageIterator constructor is now mandatory.

  • HashtagIterator must be provided a rhx (it is infered for ProfileIterator).

Fixed

  • API changes made by Instagram ca. April 2018 (excluding logging in / out).

  • Calling operator.length_hint on PageIterator objects will no longer cause duplicate server queries.

v1.0.0 - 2018-04-05

Added

  • This CHANGELOG file.

  • Typing annotations using the typing module.

  • Limited retries on connection failure, using tenacity.

  • Real-world User Agent spoofing, using fake-useragent

Fixed

  • API changes made by Instagram ca. March 2018.

Changed

  • Whole new API following major code refactor and rewrite.

  • Requests to the API directly use JSON and GraphQL queries when possible.

  • License is now GPLv3 or later instead of GPLv3.

  • I/O now uses PyFilesystem (FS URLs can be passed as CLI arguments).

Removed

  • Exif metadata handling (will be added back in later release).

  • urlgen capabilities (Instagram signs picture URL since 2018).

  • Python 3.5.1 support (lacks the required typing version).

  • progressbar2 dependency, replaced by tqdm

  • hues dependency, replaced by coloredlogs

  • BeautifulSoup4 dependency