# Installer instaloader avec Homebrew, apt, Nix, winget

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de instaloader pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:instaloader
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install instaloader
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install instaloader
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: instaloader from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#instaloader
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/in/instaloader/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id instaloader.instaloader -e
```

  Preuve: Windows Package Manager source index: instaloader.instaloader from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:instaloader
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 4.15.3
- **Résumé source:** Download media from Instagram
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://instaloader.github.io/>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-27T11:05:22Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- instaloader (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 4.15.3
## Historique du projet et usages

Instaloader is a Python command-line and library tool for downloading Instagram photos, videos, captions, comments, geotags, stories, feeds, saved media, and related metadata. It is one of the more widely packaged Instagram media archiving tools in Unix-like package managers.

### Historique du projet

The GitHub repository was created in 2016, and PyPI records the first published package line in 2016. The official documentation describes Instaloader as free open-source Python software for downloading Instagram media and metadata.

The project evolved from profile downloads into a broader archival tool. The docs list support for public and private profiles, hashtags, stories, highlights, tagged posts, reels, IGTV, feed and saved targets, profile-name-change detection, resumable interrupted downloads, customizable filters, and use as a Python module.

The release stream continued through the 4.x series, with the documentation site linking to tagged releases and PyPI distributing a large release history. This matters because Instagram scraping tools often have to react to platform-side changes and authentication/rate-limit behavior.

### Historique d'adoption

Instaloader's package-manager reach is broad for a Python CLI. The input metadata records Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Nix, and Winget packages, while the official docs recommend pip and also point to AUR, standalone Windows executables, source downloads, pre-release installs, and Termux on Android.

Homebrew packages Instaloader from PyPI, and the formula records notable installation activity. The GitHub repository has a large user-facing footprint for this batch, with thousands of stars and a documentation site aimed at both CLI users and library users.

### Modes d'utilisation

The basic documented workflow is instaloader profile, with options for fast incremental updates and timestamp-based archive updates. Login enables private profile, stories, feed, saved, and other authenticated targets, and the docs describe reusable session-cookie storage for non-interactive runs.

The docs also cover post filtering, filename templates, metadata text and JSON files, exit codes, cron-style operation, Python API usage, and troubleshooting for rate limits and login errors, which makes the package more of an archival toolkit than a one-command downloader.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Instaloader is significant because it sits at the intersection of Python packaging, social-media scraping, local backup workflows, credential/session storage, and fast-moving upstream web behavior. It is also packaged across both language and OS package managers.

For package maintainers, it is a useful example of a CLI whose binary behavior depends on web-service policy, authentication state, rate limits, and user data layout rather than only on local dependencies.

### Chronologie

- 2016: GitHub repository created and Instaloader appears on PyPI.
- 2020s: Documentation covers profile, hashtag, story, feed, saved-media, metadata, cron, and Python-module workflows.
- 2024: v4.14 release line published.
- 2026: v4.15.1 release published and packaged by Homebrew.

### Related projects

- Instaloader is related to PyPI, Homebrew, Debian/Ubuntu/Nix/Winget packaging, AUR, Termux, Python web scraping libraries, Instagram archival scripts, and older or alternative tools such as InstaLooter.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/instaloader.json>
- <https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader>
- <https://instaloader.github.io/>
- <https://pypi.org/pypi/instaloader/json>


## Notes de sécurité

Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour instaloader. Les métadonnées de paquet Nucleus restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.config/instaloader/session-YOUR-USERNAME
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - instaloader - 4.14.1+ds-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: instaloader from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Instagram automatic photo downloader | https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader
- Nix - instaloader: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/in/instaloader/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - instaloader - 4.10.3+ds-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: instaloader from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Instagram automatic photo downloader | https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader
- winget - instaloader.instaloader: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: instaloader.instaloader from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/instaloader.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/instaloader.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph