Hi, this is a very stupid question but please understand I’m very new to coding. I want to download all the stories of a user with a public profile. I use Jupyter Notebooks via Anaconda Navigator.
I read the instructions and this is what I typed:
! pip install instaloader
! pip install --upgrade instaloader
import instaloader
and then I don’t know what to do. I tried all the codes I found here but I always get “invalid syntax”. Could you please tell me exactly what I’m supposed to write? Thank you
alu45
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You want to script this or you simply want to use it via terminal?
Deleora
on 23 Jun 2020
@Deleora Actually, as I read your comment, I understood my mistake. I used JupyterLab > Terminal and it worked.
instaloader --login=myusername --password=mypassword --stories-only theirusername
However, is there a way to get the old stories too? Or I can download only the current ones?
alu45
on 23 Jun 2020
Instead of giving --password=YOUR-PASSWORD, I would suggest to remove this part and hit ENTER. Now you will be asked to enter the password if the session file is not found. This way you won't reveal your password to spying eyes 👀.
And NO. If you are talking about downloading old stories of some other PROFILE, it's not possible because you don't have access to them in any way.
So it's not possible.
Deleora
on 24 Jun 2020
I see, thank you so much!
alu45
on 26 Jun 2020
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Instead of giving
--password=YOUR-PASSWORD, I would suggest to remove this part and hit ENTER. Now you will be asked to enter the password if the session file is not found. This way you won't reveal your password to spying eyes 👀.And NO. If you are talking about downloading old stories of some other PROFILE, it's not possible because you don't have access to them in any way.
So it's not possible.