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mikf / gallery-dl

Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites
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Links in Instagram stories not in json anymore #4519

Open curya opened 1 year ago

curya commented 1 year ago

I'm not sure when this change happened since I only noticed it now.

Before, if there was a link embedded in an Instagram story, it would show up in the json file. Now, only the usual info shows up as if there was no link at all.

I would provide a sample URL, but by the time someone gets to this issue, it would be gone. So I guess you'll have to find one on your own. A good way would be to check the stories of popular people or news companies on Instagram. They frequently post links in their stories so that should be easy.

kshitiz305 commented 1 year ago

Hey I wish to contribute to the issue and I would like to know what was the link in the json along with the entire json structure

mikf commented 1 year ago

if there was a link embedded in an Instagram story, it would show up in the json file

What was the metadata field name for these links?

The only names that I'd classify as "links" are post_url, display_url, and video_url but those shouldn't be missing or broken.

curya commented 1 year ago

@mikf

I have no idea.

I'm not talking about the links to the actual story. I'm talking about links you can embed into a story. For example, a news company may post a screenshot of one of their articles to their Instagram stories. And then they can put a link IN the story that links to their news article on their own website.

It must be in the metadata somewhere. It's just that gallery-dl doesn't see it anymore for some reason.

mikf commented 1 year ago

I don't think gallery-dl every extracted actual embedded links. The only thing that would potentially come close are story_bloks_stickers that would translate to tagged_users in gallery-dl's metadata. Maybe IG changed these to some other name and gallery-dl doesn't recognize them anymore.

curya commented 1 year ago

It still gets tagged users.

But maybe I'm misremembering. I did use something else to download from Instagram before using gallery-dl. Either way, I know it was possible to get the embedded links.

So I guess if gallery-dl never had that feature, maybe this is a feature request post...