Enable user_has_liked as IG download filter
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Background and context: 1. Instagram by default requires you to be logged in. 2. Your account can LIKE posts. 3. Getting all of your likes from IG can be a pain. As an active IG user, I want to be able to download only posts I've liked. The information of whether or not your logged-in user has liked the target post is available in the API results, but was not available to the end-user for filtering. This small change allows `user_has_liked` to be used to e.g. download only liked posts of an entire IG account. Example use: ``` $ gallery-dl --cookies-from-browser FIREFOX--filter 'user_has_liked' https://www.instagram.com/imgur/ ``` This will only download the posts that have `has_liked: True` set in the returned REST API data. Note: it will still need to loop through the entire account's posts since this is done per-post basis instead of looping just the liked posts, but at least you are able to use this IG feature as a download marker.
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Background and context:
As an active IG user, I want to be able to download only posts I've liked.
The information of whether or not your logged-in user has liked the target post is available in the API results, but was not available to the end-user for filtering.
This small change allows
user_has_likedto be used to e.g. download only liked posts of an entire IG account.Example use:
This will only download the posts that have
has_liked: Trueset in the returned REST API data.Note: it will still need to loop through the entire account's posts since this is done per-post basis instead of looping just the liked posts, but at least you are able to use this IG feature as a download marker.