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Changed

• Passing a pre-initialised Session to PageIterator constructor is now mandatory
• HashtagIterator must be provided a rhx (it is infered for ProfileIterator)

Fixed

• API changes made by Instagram ca. April 2018 (excluding logging in / out)
• Calling operator.length_hint on PageIterator objects will no longer cause duplicate server queries.

• Add Python 3.5.1 to incompatible versions
• Add a Change Log

• Add a proper fix for #154

• Fix download not working after logging in a looter
• Fix InstaLooter._user_agents causing help and pydoc to fail

• Fix malformed table in README.rst
• Improve code quality
• Rename methods of BatchRunner
• Avoid adding constants to the builtin logging module

• Use fake-useragent to get user agents for HTTP spoofing
• Fix login not working (thanks to @AbysmalBiscuit)
• Update examples in documentation
• Fix MediasIterator not raising StopIteration on empty page
• Use cached class properties to initialise the module lazily

Data layer

• Completely rewrite data-layer implementation to follow Instagram structure changes
• Rename main module to lowercase name (instalooter)
• Reorganize documentation to follow the new API
• Use tenacity to make sure the background threads don't crash on the first connection error
• Update examples and installation instructions
• Add type annotations (and add typing as a dependency for older Python versions)
• Use PyFilesystem to hold cache data and file downloading

CLI

• Use tqdm instead of progressbar2 for the progress bar
• Use coloredlogs instead of hues for the terminal styling

• Fix hashtag JSON structure change

• Fix bug with ':' in paths in batch mode