Alexander Graf

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Our goal with Instaloader's CLI is to keep it lean and focused on the most common use cases, ensuring that it remains intuitive without overwhelming users with too many options....

We will not mark Instaloader deprecated and switch to a new main class. The workflows can be run locally, we use Pipenv for dependency pinning so the exact versions that...

It's important to understand that deprecating a core class has significant implications, even if backwards compatibility is maintained. Deprecation signals to users that they should begin transitioning to a new...

You can pause the downloading process by pressing `Control + C`, or you can set the option `--abort-on=401` to automatically pause when a 401 error occurs. Instaloader is designed to...

To handle this, I would prefer the factory method approach outlined in #2195. > This would introduce a way to also cleanly set custom session parameters, like SSL verification (suggested...

Thanks for that clarification. We updated the release notes of [Version 4.13](https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader/releases/tag/v4.13) with a note: > `Post.owner_profile` may now return a different user than the one being downloaded for posts...

Yes, Instaloader should handle 410 Gone errors by skipping the unavailable media instead of stopping the entire download.

This issue is not a bug with Instaloader itself, but rather with how the `download_post` method is being invoked. The method sanitizes the `target` provided to it to ensure valid...