Any way to reduce the requests to instagram server?

[snwefly]

First of all, thanks for the application.

I am following +150 accounts on the in instagram, usually i find <10 new post every week.

When i run gallery-dl its check each post on each account and compare it with --download-archive file.

Every gallery-dl execution sends tens of thousands queries to instagram server and it my account got suspended multiple times.

I am already using sleep-request but i didn't find any way to reduce the requests to server.

Is there any way to make gallery-dl to only check the newest/recently uploaded post date and next time i run it only check new post from previous run date?

Thanks

[mikf]

There is -A / --abort:

  -A, --abort N               Stop current extractor run after N consecutive
                              file downloads were skipped

And you can also use the following to stop when reaching a post before a certain date. You have to update the date manually, though.

--filter "pinned or date >= datetime(2024, 12, 1) or abort()"

To reduce the number of requests even further, use user IDs instead of names in input URLs so it doesn't have to do a "name to ID" lookup for each user:

https://www.instagram.com/instagram/
->
https://www.instagram.com/id:25025320/

[snwefly]

You're are awesome, This is what exactly i was looking for.

One more question

Is there anyway to put tagged posts under requested user folder instead of the original uploader?

[mikf]

/USER/tagged URLs provide tagged_owner_id, tagged_username, and tagged_full_name metadata fields that reference the USER in the URL. There're also the generally available user[...] values if you don't use IDs in URLs.

{
    "extractor": {
        "instagram": {
            "tagged": {
                "directory": ["{category}", "{tagged_username}"]
            }
        }
    }
}