# 使用 Homebrew 安装 instalooter

查看 instalooter 的安装路径、可执行文件、元数据以及面向 AI 代理工作流的安全说明。

## 安装

```sh
sudo av install brew:instalooter
```

其他安装命令:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install instalooter
```

  证据: local Homebrew formula metadata

## 软件包事实

- **软件包键:** brew:instalooter
- **软件包管理器:** Homebrew
- **软件包管理器页面:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/instalooter>
- **版本:** 2.4.4
- **来源摘要:** Download any picture or video associated from an Instagram profile
- **主页:** <https://github.com/althonos/instalooter>
- **仓库:** <https://github.com/althonos/instalooter>
- **许可证:** GPL-3.0-or-later
- **源码归档:** <https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/30/13/907e6aaba6280e1001080ab47e750068ffc5fb7174203985b3c9d678e3f2/instalooter-2.4.4.tar.gz>
- **最后更新:** 2026-07-10T15:03:40-07:00
- **已生成:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## 可执行文件

- instalooter (cli)
- instalooter (别名)

## 依赖

- certifi
- python@3.14

## 安装行为

- post-install 钩子: 未定义
- Bottle: 可用 于 all

## 版本和新鲜度

- 页面生成时间: 2026-08-04
- 管理器版本: 2.4.4
- 管理器更新时间: 2026-07-10
- 本地数据: OK
- 上游仓库: https://github.com/althonos/instalooter
- 信息: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## 项目历史与用法

InstaLooter is a Python command-line downloader for Instagram pictures and videos from profiles, hashtags, posts, and batch files. Its own GitHub metadata describes it as API-less and defunct, which makes it a useful historical companion to better-maintained Instagram archiving tools.

### 项目历史

The GitHub repository and PyPI package appeared in 2016. The README says InstaLooter can download pictures or videos associated with an Instagram profile without API access and describes it as a reimplementation of the deprecated InstaRaider project.

The 1.0.0 line was rewritten from scratch and intentionally risked breaking script compatibility while trying to keep the CLI familiar. The changelog records a semantic-versioned release stream through the 2.x series, including fixes for Instagram-side API and login changes.

### 采用历史

InstaLooter was distributed through PyPI and packaged by Homebrew. The official Read the Docs build, README badges, and PyPI metadata show a conventional Python CLI distribution path with documentation, changelog, source repository, and package releases.

The Homebrew formula packages the PyPI source archive for version 2.4.4, while PyPI records dozens of releases beginning in 2016. That adoption is modest but real for a single-purpose scraper.

### 使用方式

The documented command-line interface includes user, hashtag, post, and batch subcommands. Options cover credentials, output directories, number of files, parallel jobs, filename templates, videos, metadata dumps, time limits, and authenticated downloads.

The docs describe logging in with username/password or a login subcommand, then storing a session cookie in a cache-specific folder. That credential behavior is central to how such tools handled private profiles and authenticated media access.

### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心

InstaLooter is historically interesting because it shows the fragile lifecycle of API-less social-media downloaders: quick adoption, many small fixes, rewrites after web changes, and eventual defunct status as upstream platform behavior moves.

For package maintainers, it is a cautionary package: the source archive, docs, and formula remain useful records, but the project's own description warns that its web-scraping assumptions aged out.

### 时间线

- 2016: GitHub repository created and 0.1.0 uploaded to PyPI.
- 2018: v1.0.0 released after a from-scratch rewrite.
- 2018: v2.0.0 addressed Instagram API changes around April 2018.
- 2020: v2.4.4 documented in the changelog and uploaded to PyPI.
- 2023: GitHub repository metadata describes the project as defunct.

### Related projects

- InstaLooter is related to InstaRaider, Instaloader, PyPI-distributed scraping CLIs, Read the Docs documentation, Homebrew Python formulas, and Instagram media archival scripts.

### 来源

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/instalooter.json>
- <https://github.com/althonos/instalooter>
- <https://instalooter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html>
- <https://instalooter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html>
- <https://pypi.org/pypi/instalooter/json>


## 安全说明

没有找到 instalooter 的匹配本地密钥处理 manifest。软件包元数据仍在此发布，以便未来覆盖拥有稳定的软件包 URL。


## 源数据库详情

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** instalooter
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 18
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** yes
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable


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- [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/zh-hans/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
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- [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/zh-hans/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [python@3.14](https://pkg.so/zh-hans/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [instaloader](https://pkg.so/zh-hans/brew/instaloader/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, downloader, instagram, media, photos.
- [gallery-dl](https://pkg.so/zh-hans/brew/gallery-dl/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, downloader, media, python.
- [gamdl](https://pkg.so/zh-hans/brew/gamdl/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, downloader, media, python.
- [yt-dlp](https://pkg.so/zh-hans/brew/yt-dlp/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, downloader, media.
- [svtplay-dl](https://pkg.so/zh-hans/brew/svtplay-dl/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, media, python.
- [get_iplayer](https://pkg.so/zh-hans/brew/get-iplayer/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, downloader, media.
- [you-get](https://pkg.so/zh-hans/brew/you-get/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, downloader, media, python.
- [animdl](https://pkg.so/zh-hans/brew/animdl/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, downloader, media, python.

## Combined YAML source

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


## 来源

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
