instaloader/instaloader v4.9

Version 4.9

on GitHub

Fixes:

• Fix download of hashtags (#1080)
• Fix an issue with folder names starting with dots (#1252)
• Fix KeyError for video_url when Post is invoked with a StoryItem structure (#1320, #1321)
• Fix rare case of infinity loading (#1465)

New Features:

• Enable resuming interrupted downloads for instaloader #hashtag
• Method Hashtag.get_posts_resumable() to get Hashtags in a resumable way (NodeIterator)
• Add --sanitize-paths option (#185, #710, #859, #1452)
• Property Post.accessibility_caption
• Method StoryItem.from_mediaid()

Other changes:

• Removed Hashtag.get_related_tags() and Hashtag.is_top_media_only as these features were removed from Instagram
• Updated default User Agent string

BREAKING CHANGES (in version 4.9):

• Properties date_local of Post and StoryItem now return timezone-aware datetime objects (#1305, #1316, #1372)

Thanks to @canh, @ekalin, @fireattack, @JeremyKj87, @misaelitox, and @otanim for contributing to this release!

Thanks a lot to our sponsors for supporting this release!

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