[Instagram] skip analysis of private profiles?

[throwaway242685]

is there an option to skip the analysis of private Instagram accounts?

[mikf]

No, there isn't.

Why? Is gallery-dl reporting a private profile even though you should be able to access its posts?

[throwaway242685]

if you try to download a private Instagram profile with -o include=all, it will take several minutes to try and (inevitably) fail the download.

it looks like gallery-dl tries to analyze the URL multiple times, and doesn't recognize that it's a private URL with the first analysis.

maybe the first thing that gallery-dl should do is detect if an Instagram profile is private or not? and then proceed (or not) with the rest of the analysis.

and no, I don't have access to it, that's why I prefer to skip it.

[mikf]

This feature has already been added in commit fce6642, I think.

You will get multiple [instagram][error] USER's posts are private messages, but they all (except /tagged) happen immediately and only cost 1 HTTP request in total.

[throwaway242685]

oh, thank you!

[afterdelight]

pls update the program

[mikf]

Some additional recommendation:
You really should not use -o include=all for Instagram, main reason being duplicate media. The files returned from /reels and /channel, which is this point is just another name for /reels, get returned with the main /posts feed as well, I think, but all 3 of those are part of include=all.

A better selection would be just include=stories,highlights,posts and maybe tagged.

[throwaway242685]

ohh... do posts also include the reels?

[mikf]

Yes, from what I've seen reels are just the videos from posts.

I've just downloaded the first few files from https://www.instagram.com/instagram/reels/ and https://www.instagram.com/instagram/posts/ and everything from reels plus some extra was also downloaded with posts and all duplicate files are identical.

$ diff posts/ reels/ 
Only in posts/: 2941726983239585531_2941726415882424109.mp4
Only in posts/: 2941726983239585531_2941726422266056732.mp4
Only in posts/: 2941726983239585531_2941726594702450170.mp4
Only in posts/: 2941726983239585531_2941726602788904645.mp4
Only in posts/: 2941726983239585531_2941726608182985063.mp4
Only in posts/: 2941726983239585531_2941726614180702748.mp4
Only in posts/: 2946050323449731568_2946050316269243912.jpg
Only in posts/: 2946050323449731568_2946050316277528820.jpg
Only in posts/: 2946050323449731568_2946050316344729055.jpg
Only in posts/: 2946774028971265897_2946773225097226015.mp4
Only in posts/: 2946774028971265897_2946774025187907850.jpg
Only in posts/: 2946774028971265897_2946774025582272465.jpg
Only in posts/: 2947510331606204451_2947510324115138977.jpg
Only in posts/: 2947510331606204451_2947510324148581716.jpg
Only in posts/: 2947510331606204451_2947510324643547844.jpg

[throwaway242685]

oh, that's good to know :o

thank you so much!

[afterdelight]

Some additional recommendation: You really should not use -o include=all for Instagram, main reason being duplicate media. The files returned from /reels and /channel, which is this point is just another name for /reels, get returned with the main /posts feed as well, I think, but all 3 of those are part of include=all.

A better selection would be just include=stories,highlights,posts and maybe tagged.

Isnt channel used to be for IGTV?