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brew install instalooter

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Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Download any picture or video associated from an Instagram profile

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

instalooter

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

InstaLooter is a Python command-line downloader for Instagram pictures and videos from profiles, hashtags, posts, and batch files. Its own GitHub metadata describes it as API-less and defunct, which makes it a useful historical companion to better-maintained Instagram archiving tools.

Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository and PyPI package appeared in 2016. The README says InstaLooter can download pictures or videos associated with an Instagram profile without API access and describes it as a reimplementation of the deprecated InstaRaider project.

The 1.0.0 line was rewritten from scratch and intentionally risked breaking script compatibility while trying to keep the CLI familiar. The changelog records a semantic-versioned release stream through the 2.x series, including fixes for Instagram-side API and login changes.

Adoptionsgeschichte

InstaLooter was distributed through PyPI and packaged by Homebrew. The official Read the Docs build, README badges, and PyPI metadata show a conventional Python CLI distribution path with documentation, changelog, source repository, and package releases.

The Homebrew formula packages the PyPI source archive for version 2.4.4, while PyPI records dozens of releases beginning in 2016. That adoption is modest but real for a single-purpose scraper.

Wie es verwendet wird

The documented command-line interface includes user, hashtag, post, and batch subcommands. Options cover credentials, output directories, number of files, parallel jobs, filename templates, videos, metadata dumps, time limits, and authenticated downloads.

The docs describe logging in with username/password or a login subcommand, then storing a session cookie in a cache-specific folder. That credential behavior is central to how such tools handled private profiles and authenticated media access.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

InstaLooter is historically interesting because it shows the fragile lifecycle of API-less social-media downloaders: quick adoption, many small fixes, rewrites after web changes, and eventual defunct status as upstream platform behavior moves.

For package maintainers, it is a cautionary package: the source archive, docs, and formula remain useful records, but the project's own description warns that its web-scraping assumptions aged out.

Zeitleiste

2016: GitHub repository created and 0.1.0 uploaded to PyPI.
2018: v1.0.0 released after a from-scratch rewrite.
2018: v2.0.0 addressed Instagram API changes around April 2018.
2020: v2.4.4 documented in the changelog and uploaded to PyPI.
2023: GitHub repository metadata describes the project as defunct.

Related projects

InstaLooter is related to InstaRaider, Instaloader, PyPI-distributed scraping CLIs, Read the Docs documentation, Homebrew Python formulas, and Instagram media archival scripts.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Noch keine Protected-Tool-Abdeckung gefunden

Für instalooter wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 1 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Installiert mit 2 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`instalooter`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

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Seite generiert2026-07-25

Manager-Version2.4.4

Manager aktualisiert2026-07-10

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://github.com/althonos/instalooter

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Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:instalooter
Version	2.4.4
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/instalooter
Homepage	https://github.com/althonos/instalooter
Repository	https://github.com/althonos/instalooter
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://instalooter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Lizenz	GPL-3.0-or-later
Quellarchiv	https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/30/13/907e6aaba6280e1001080ab47e750068ffc5fb7174203985b3c9d678e3f2/instalooter-2.4.4.tar.gz
Zuletzt aktualisiert	2026-07-10T15:03:40-07:00
Pulse	updated
Abhängigkeiten	certifi, python@3.14
Bottle	verfügbar (auf all)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	instalooter
Version Scheme	0
Revision	18
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	yes
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

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Quellspur

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Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/instalooter.yml

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