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instascraper 2.0.4
A fast and lightweight Instagram media downloader.
License: MIT
Requires Python: >=3.6.0
Keywords: instagram,scraper,downloader,media,api,cli

**instascrape** is a fast and lightweight utility and Python library for downloading a massive amount of media (photos and videos) from Instagram, without using the official Instagram Public API.
## Features
* 🔌 Powerful & simple-to-use library interface
  * ⛓ calls methods in a chain (fluent interface)
  * 🔩 provides hooks/callbacks in download methods* 🚸 User-friendly commad-line interface
* 💨 High efficiency
  * 🧵 uses multithreading to fetch data
  * ⚡️ uses generators to yield results
* 🔎 Provides a *filter* option to avoid downloading media that you don't want
* 📑 Download media along with their metadata
* ⚠️ Good exceptions handling
* 🍪 Manages multiple cookies for you
* 🔑 Peforms authentication effectively
  * 🔐 supports 2FA
  * 🖇 solves checkpoint challenge
* 🕶 Can be used in anonymous mode