instagrapi 2.4.0

on Python PyPI

Highlights

• Added location lookup helpers: location_search_name() and location_search_pk().
• Added note lookup helpers: get_note_by_user() and get_note_text_by_user().
• Improved story sticker handling for link + hashtag uploads and extraction.
• Added GraphQL fallback for user id / username lookups.
• Added safer handling for newer challenge flows like /auth_platform/ and UFAC web bloks.

Fixes

• Fixed direct reply visual media timestamps.
• Fixed empty resource/image candidate handling.
• Fixed share-post URL resolution before media shortcode decoding.
• Preserved explicit country in set_settings().
• Restored Python 3.9 compatibility.
• Handled missing web profile fields and missing direct thread flags.
• Updated security-sensitive dependencies (requests, Pillow, pytest).

Documentation

• Refreshed README and usage docs.
• Replaced issue templates with issue forms.

Verification

• Built release artifacts for 2.4.0 successfully (sdist and wheel).