Instapy: Use the InstaPy code instead of the installed by pip - Development purposes

[joanroig]

Current Behavior

I've cloned InstaPy and installed its dependencies, after that I've runned the quickstart.py file and I've noticed it compiled and runned the code from the /instapy folder.
If I run code from another folder, like /instapy/custom/quickstart.py the code is runned from the pip dependency, so I cannot test my changes on the instapy core.

Expected Behavior

There should be an easy way to point the InstaPy core for making changes on it.

Possible Solution (optional)

I've tried setting the workspace folder but it seems that only points the logs folder, the core runs from the pip dependency.

InstaPy configuration

Regular clone with basic configurations.

[timgrossmann]

@joanroig Awesome to hear you're planning to do some development on InstaPy 🙌

I think what you are searching for is this:

pip install --help
...
  -e, --editable <path/url>   Install a project in editable mode (i.e. setuptools
                              "develop mode") from a local project path or a VCS url.

You might need to either deinstall instapy using pip uninstall instapy or use the -I flag to ignore the installed version when doing this to avoid already satisfied

Let me know if that helps 😊

[breuerfelix]

ahahah nooo this is waaaay easier ! and @uluQulu already wrote that in the readme :)

clone the repo and cd into the repo.
execute pip3 install -e .
it will install the current folder as a package but it will refer to this package everytime you use it anywhere on your computer :)

so you can make local changes, start the quickstart anywhere on your systems, and it will use your local changes. you do not have to update something, its always 'live'.

/edit actualy readme entry http://prntscr.com/mppuf4

[joanroig]

Thanks! I've skipped the -e part in the docu