Nov-18-2019, 01:22 PM
Hello!
I am extracting instagram posts with diverse hashtags (f.e. "bachmannpreis") via the command line of my computer, using Instaloader (https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader). I use following code:
Everything works just fine, but I noticed that Instaloader extracted a large number of posts for this hashtag that contain no caption at all, although this code only extracts posts with a caption containing the entered hashtag. These posts have no caption and therefore also do not contain the tag I am looking for.
I don't understand why these posts were extracted in my search for a specific hashtag if they do not actually contain this hashtag. Could someone explain why instaloader is extracting these wrong/useless posts? And how I might prevent this?
Thank you in advance!
I am extracting instagram posts with diverse hashtags (f.e. "bachmannpreis") via the command line of my computer, using Instaloader (https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader). I use following code:
instaloader --no-pictures --no-videos --no-compress-json --no-profile-pic --post-metadata-txt="{owner_username}\{caption}\{date_local}\{date_utc}\{likes}\{comments}\\\" --filename-pattern={date_utc:%d-%m-%Y}_UTC_{profile} “#bachmannpreis”As you can see, I am extracting the caption in the txt-metadata.
Everything works just fine, but I noticed that Instaloader extracted a large number of posts for this hashtag that contain no caption at all, although this code only extracts posts with a caption containing the entered hashtag. These posts have no caption and therefore also do not contain the tag I am looking for.
I don't understand why these posts were extracted in my search for a specific hashtag if they do not actually contain this hashtag. Could someone explain why instaloader is extracting these wrong/useless posts? And how I might prevent this?
Thank you in advance!