get_posts() with limit

[BobikRekordik]

Hi. Make the get_posts() method accept the limit on the received data as an argument. There are pages with more than 100 thousand posts and it took me about an hour to do this.
I would like to get only the last n posts instead of all the posts by sending an argument.
posts = user.get_posts(50); #latest 50 posts only :)

[Mesheo]

Hey @BobikRekordik! I saw your issue when running into the same problem. I went a little bit inside the code and I believe it does not make sense to change the behave of get_post() function, since is more a NodeGenerator at the end of our scrapping process.
Also, it already has this functionality of limiting posts download inside the self.posts_download_loop() method, for some reason the external calling functions were just not adjusted to receive and pass this argument further

I made a PR with the changes that worked here, you just need to use the new recommend function to get profile posts: instaloader.download_profiles()

Here it is a snippet code of how get some limiting amount of posts after this change

from instaloader import Instaloader, Profile

USERNAME = "cachorroquentealex"
Instaloader = Instaloader()
profile = Profile.from_username(Instaloader.context, USERNAME)
Instaloader.download_profiles(profiles=[profile], max_count=2) # it will download only 2 posts

[BobikRekordik]

Hey @BobikRekordik! I saw your issue when running into the same problem. I went a little bit inside the code and I believe it does not make sense to change the behave of get_post() function, since is more a NodeGenerator at the end of our scrapping process. Also, it already has this functionality of limiting posts download inside the self.posts_download_loop() method, for some reason the external calling functions were just not adjusted to receive and pass this argument further

I made a PR with the changes that worked here, you just need to use the new recommend function to get profile posts: instaloader.download_profiles()

Here it is a snippet code of how get some limiting amount of posts after this change

from instaloader import Instaloader, Profile

USERNAME = "cachorroquentealex"
Instaloader = Instaloader()
profile = Profile.from_username(Instaloader.context, USERNAME)
Instaloader.download_profiles(profiles=[profile], max_count=2) # it will download only 2 posts

Thanks, it's a good option, but the method downloads the whole page, I need it to return a List[] from these posts, there is a shortcode, id, description and others...

example:

posts = method(profile, count=5)
for post in posts:
   print(post.shortcode)