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Preventing text files from being saved #25

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mmathab opened this issue Jul 26, 2017 · 2 comments
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Preventing text files from being saved #25

mmathab opened this issue Jul 26, 2017 · 2 comments
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mmathab commented Jul 26, 2017

I have not figured yet how to prevent the text files from being saved along the images. Maybe we could have a "--no-text-file" function as well?

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Options --no-captions and --no-geotags
117124d 
These options instruct instaloader to not save captions or geotags
respectively, even if the regarding information can be obtained without
any additional queries to Instagram.

This feature was proposed in #25, and thus this commit should close #25.
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117124d adds the option --no-captions which prevents Instaloader from saving the caption text files. However, it is still in the experimental branch v3-dev.

$ pip3 install --upgrade git+https://github.com/Thammus/instaloader@v3-dev
$ instaloader --no-captions ...

I personally do not consider this an important feature. On modern filesystems, the caption files usually need 0 bytes of space, since most of them can be inlined into their inode. Furthermore, in case they are absolutely not desired, a simple rm *.txt would match and delete them.

Happy instaloading!
Alex

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mmathab commented Aug 11, 2017 •
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In windows, I have been searching and deleting 70,000 text files a day takes a lot of resources and a few minutes each time. Thanks for implementing.

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