Needed feature. Please merge it

Very needed feature. The current wave of content creators are using IG similarly to Tiktok and have only a few hundred posts but multiple hundreds to thousands of reels

@exwm A quick note as I just tested your update: When downloading reels vs stories or posts, the total count isn't functioning as expected.

For example, I just downloaded the reels for a certain profile. Instead of [1/22], [2/22], [3/22]...[22/22], it was just [1], [2], [3]...[22] then done. Could this be a bug, or just that IG doesn't give a total for reels like posts? Is that what you meant in your notes on structures.py?

Also could be user error as I didn't update to your branch, but edited my library to match your update. I can restore to my backup and reupdate if you think I'm wrong.

using --reels is not working for me, not sure why tbh. It only downloaded one reel.

Edit: it looks like --fast-update was causing an issue.

@exwm A quick note as I just tested your update: When downloading reels vs stories or posts, the total count isn't functioning as expected.

For example, I just downloaded the reels for a certain profile. Instead of [1/22], [2/22], [3/22]...[22/22], it was just [1], [2], [3]...[22] then done. Could this be a bug, or just that IG doesn't give a total for reels like posts? Is that what you meant in your notes on structures.py?

Yes, I wasn't able to find a total count for reels so that is expected.

@exwm I installed your fork, but unfortunately, I am unable to download reels.

I get the error KeyError: 'edge_felix_video_timeline'

Do you maybe have an idea on how to fix it?

I tried to download the reels by running instaloader --reels accountname --load-cookies Chrome and I'm on Ubuntu 22.04.

Thank you :)

@Arche151

edge_felix_video_timeline is only referenced when --igtv is enabled I think. IGTV was removed from IG as far as I know. Are you sure you didn't add --igtv somewhere?

EDIT: Nvm, I actually broke profile downloading because I didn't update callers when I reordered function parameters. Should be fixed now.

@exwm With the new version, the reels-download works now! Thanks a lot for the fix :)

@exwm Hmmm. I seem to be running into an error and not sure why, because I thought references to "rhx_gis" this were removed.

For this example, I'm currently scraping only stories. I use an arg file that has about 12 profiles in it. Then I run it from the CL. One of the 12 profiles is one that goes active and inactive every few days, so I keep it in the list just to let me know when she's back. Essentially, if I gat a message about the profile not existing and having to look it up by ID, I know the page is inactive. If it scrapes her, then it's back up. But after updating my setup to the files you've updated for the reels downloads, I've started getting the folowing:

Using latest stamps from C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Instaloader\latest-stamps.ini.
Loaded session from C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Instaloader\session-XXXX.
Logged in as XXXX.
Trying to find profile laurenhamden using its unique ID 807863763.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 198, in run_module_as_main
File "", line 88, in run_code
File "C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\instaloader.exe_main.py", line 7, in
File "C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\instaloader_main.py", line 584, in main
exit_code = main(loader,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\instaloader_main.py", line 264, in _main
profile = instaloader.check_profile_id(target, latest_stamps)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\instaloader\instaloader.py", line 1396, in check_profile_id
profile_from_id = Profile.from_id(self.context, profile_id)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\instaloader\structures.py", line 912, in from_id
rhx_gis=context.root_rhx_gis)['data']['user']
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'InstaloaderContext' object has no attribute 'root_rhx_gis'

So it seems something in your code is breaking when we hit a profile we have to look up by ID. And calling something that I thought had been removed in a previous release? If I revert back to the previous, then I don't get the error. And yes, I could just delete the profile from my list, but that's just a workaround

@MonkeyKingViper I think that's because this PR is against the upcoming v4.14 release and branch. This branch (https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader/tree/upcoming/v4.14) is based on v4.13 and has not incorporated v4.13.1 which removed rhx_gis.

You could rebase onto 4.13.1 or master until this is sorted out by the maintainers.

@MonkeyKingViper I think that's because this PR is against the upcoming v4.14 release and branch. This branch (https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader/tree/upcoming/v4.14) is based on v4.13 and has not incorporated v4.13.1 which removed rhx_gis.

You could rebase onto 4.13.1 or master until this is sorted out by the maintainers.

Ah, interesting. I didn't realize that but it makes total sense. Thank you.

Thanks a lot! We merged it and created a pre-release v4.14rc1 with it included.

showing error like this instaloader: error: unrecognized arguments: --reels