Instaloader: Single post download

[Coriou]

Unless I'm mistaken, there's right now no way to download a single Instagram post. I think this feature would be quite nice.

My use case is a bot I have running, interacting with various posts and I'm building an UI to see the reports. I have a list of posts the bot interacted with, and I'd like to download those posts with all the neat instaloader features. Except, I just want one post each time.

For the implementation, I think it's all there already and should leverage download_pic()

Here's how I see the minimal CLI implementation instaloader --single https://www.instagram.com/p/xxx

The output should be similar to the actual instaloader imho.

[aandergr]

Please have a look at our documentation: https://instaloader.github.io/basic-usage.html#what-to-download

-post
The single post with the given shortcode. Must be preceeded by -- in the argument list to not be mistaken as an option flag.

[Coriou]

My bad. Thanks

[LaticePrime]

This doesn’t work for me. I have tried:

instaloader -shortcode
Instaloader -post
Instaloader — -shortcode
Instaloader — -post

All followed by the shortcode and none of them work.

Thoroughly searched the online help including the document linked above and can’t get a concise syntax that works