Profile ID in filename about instaloader HOT 6 CLOSED

Commit 8572e52 makes options --hastag-username and --no-profile-subdir obsolete and removes them.

In the latest v2-dev version, the behavior of the former --hastag-username --no-profile-subdir can be achieved with passing
--dirname-pattern='.' --filename-pattern='{profile}__{date:%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S}'

Happy instaloading!

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Hi Mateus,

thanks for your interest in our tool! Normally, Instaloader uses directory names to encode the profile ID, i.e. pictures are usually downloaded into PROFILE/TIMESTAMP.jpg. My latest commit, 591dfd3, adds the option --no-profile-subdir to download the pictures into PROFILE__TIMESTAMP.jpg, as you suggested. However, it is still in the v2-dev branch which requires a bit of testing until we merge it into the master branch and release a new version.

Nevertheless, you may already install it with
pip3 install --upgrade git+https://github.com/Thammus/instaloader@v2-dev

Happy instaloading!
Alex

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Anyway, in the case of downloading hashtags, instead of the profile ID, the hashtag name is encoded in the downloaded file's path, leaving this issue unresolved. I will soon take a deeper look into how we could determine the profile ID in the case of downloading by hashtag.

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The latest commit adds the option --hashtag-username to lookup the owner's username for each picture when downloading by-hashtag, and use it to select the file's directory to download to, as it is the default when downloading by-profile.

Thus, to get your desired behavior, you can now call Instaloader with
instaloader --hashtag-username --no-profile-subdir #cat

We leave this issue open until the recent commits have been well tested and merged into master branch. caf75a8 was a long-awaited refactoring and I fear that it broke things.

Best regards,
Alex

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Thanks, @aandergr!

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I really appreciate your help, Alex! 🙂

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