Instaloader Hashtag functionality exits after downloading a few Posts...

[seanpatel]

I ran the following command.

$ instaloader "#boxingmeme"

and expected to download 5,218 posts as the original #boxingmeme feed on Instagram has 5,218 Posts (or atleast that's what IG is claiming it has).

However, the download exited without any error at post # 336.

See console output below.

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[329] #boxingmeme 2016-07-05_16-00-40 [Who else does this ? Umm lemm▒]
[330] #boxingmeme 2016-06-19_06-54-01 [#happy #fathersday #happyfath▒]
[331] #boxingmeme 2016-06-03_10-37-07 txt mp4
[332] #boxingmeme 2016-05-18_03-40-46 [Ok one last one .. And I'll f▒]
[333] #boxingmeme 2016-05-17_17-31-16 [Since we're at it...The way F▒]
[334] #boxingmeme 2016-05-07_21-50-50 ["Views From The 6th... Round"▒]
[335] #boxingmeme 2016-05-03_08-29-04 txt mp4
[336] #boxingmeme 2016-04-25_09-49-34 [Would you rather fight in Oak▒]

That last post downloaded, # 336 has a datetime posted of almost exactly a year ago ( Apr 25th 2016 to be precise).

Wonder if the graph querying restricts us to only a sub-set of the data.

Thoughts?

NOTE: I didn't see any error in the cosole. Not sure what the http request status returned is....

[aandergr]

I just tried it with a different hashtag having less than hundred posts. Both the Android app and the Instagram website reported it had 75 public posts, but only showed 63, most of them older than a year. Instaloader downloaded 69 posts, more than Instagram's official clients could show, which is very scary.

Anyway, I suspect this is a problem which we cannot fix right now, as it seems to me that Instagram itself isn't able to access all the posts associated with a hashtag.

If you scroll down in your browser or in the app of an Instagram hashtag page, are there any pictures shown which are not downloaded by Instaloader?

[seanpatel]

Hello,

I tried another scraper, and it went a lot further than this one for same hashtag in this issue. Please consider my detailed report posted on this issue discussion thread.

Maybe you can look at their code also, and see what you might be doing wrong or different? I love both yours and theirs!

Keep up the good work Sir!!