• Fix profile resolution (#2701)
• Fix post metadata fetching (#2706)
• Fix caption mention being missed after a newline (#2712)

Thanks to @alimony, @hyperplural and @mayman20 for contributing to this release!

Thanks to @SocialAPIsHub, @rocketapi-io and all other sponsors for supporting this release!

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• Fix profile metadata GraphQL query flags (#2696 #2695)
• Guard against null data in Post._obtain_metadata (#2705, #2704)
• Minor typing fixes

Thanks to @mholzinger and @npiriou for contributing to this release!

Thanks to @SocialAPIsHub, @rocketapi-io and all other sponsors for supporting this release!

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• Fix obtaining Profiles (when logged in) by migrating to new GraphQL endpoints (#2651, #2652)
• Save resume information on exception (#2598, #2600)

Thanks to @cxyfer and @gnestor for contributing to this release!

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Fixes:

• Abort download, saving the resume iterator file, if a query is responded with feedback_required, checkpoint_required or challenge_required (#2612)
• Fix anonymous fetch of profile posts (#2533)

Other improvements:

• Update Instagram iOS version headers based on one of the latest app version (#2472)
• Add Post.video_play_count property (#2595)
• Update default user agent to Chrome/142
• Minor improvements to the documentation
• Support Python 3.14

Thanks to @denyshon, @master131, @naitridoshi and @SamuMazzi for contributing to this release!

Thanks to @rocketapi-io and all other sponsors for supporting this release!

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Fix handling of pinned posts when downloading reels (#2441, #2539)

Thanks to @vanyasem for contributing to this release!

Thanks to @rocketapi-io and all other sponsors for supporting this release!

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• Update headers used for iPhone queries (#2472)
• Update default user agent
• Minor improvements to the documentation

Thanks to @master131 for contributing to this release!

This is a pre-release. Install with

pip3 install --pre [--upgrade] instaloader

Thanks to @rocketapi-io and all other sponsors for supporting this release!

If you are also interested in supporting the development of Instaloader, see https://instaloader.github.io/sponsors.html for a number of options.

• Fix downloading hashtags (#2144)
• Fix typos (#2474)
• Improvements to the packaging and deployment process

Thanks to @tinyboxvk for contributing to this release!

Thanks to @rocketapi-io and all other sponsors for supporting this release!

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• Add --reels flag for downloading Reels videos from profiles (#812, #2355)
• Several improvements to the CI setup used for development, support Python 3.13, drop support for Python 3.8 (#2412, #2413)

Thanks to @exwm and @tinyboxvk for contributing to this release!

Thanks to @rocketapi-io and all other sponsors for supporting this release!

If you are also interested in supporting the development of Instaloader, see https://instaloader.github.io/sponsors.html for a number of options.

• Add --reels flag for downloading Reels videos from profiles (#812, #2355)
• Several improvements to the CI setup used for development (#2412, #2413)

Thanks to @exwm and @tinyboxvk for contributing to this release!

This is a pre-release. Install with

pip3 install --pre [--upgrade] instaloader

Thanks to @rocketapi-io and all other sponsors for supporting this release!

If you are also interested in supporting the development of Instaloader, see https://instaloader.github.io/sponsors.html for a number of options.

Fix "400 Bad Request" when obtaining full Post metadata (#2384)

Thanks to @rocketapi-io and all other sponsors for supporting this release!

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