reels-sync.sh is the single-command version of the two-step pipeline:
scrape a profile's reels tab, then fetch and publish whatever's new,
with the same hand-paced settings gdl-cron.sh uses. Takes a bare
username or a full profile URL. Exits clean without touching
gdl-sync.py at all when a profile has nothing new.
Also fixes a real inefficiency in reels-scrape.py's dedup, found by
running the new script twice in a row: checking only the scraped
profile's own directories missed that a shortcode already existed
under its true owner elsewhere in the archive (reposts/collabs by
other tracked accounts), so 9 already-held reels got re-fetched for no
reason. Shortcodes are globally unique, so dedup now checks every
archived profile's listing -- all local requests to the viewer's own
API, never instagram.com, so this costs nothing on the budget that
actually matters. See TOOLING.md for the full story.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011qAds5qr7nZRq5R4yAuxUk
gallery-dl's dedicated reels extractor POSTs to /api/v1/clips/user/,
which now 302-redirects for this account -- confirmed across multiple
profiles, hours apart, with a freshly-warmed session and a correct
X-IG-WWW-Claim header (ruled out as the cause). The reels tab itself
loads fine in a real, already-signed-in browser, so reels-scrape.py
drives that same Chrome via its loopback CDP port, scrolls the reels
tab like a person would, and scrapes /reel/<code>/ links out of the
rendered page instead of calling the blocked endpoint at all.
It only finds shortcodes -- deduped against the archive via the same
--index gdl-sync.py already uses -- and prints new post URLs. Feeding
many of those into gdl-sync.py needed two small additions: a
--post-urls-file so the list doesn't have to become a giant argv, and
inter-item pacing in run_post_urls (each --post-url was its own
subprocess with nothing pacing the gap between them).
Verified end to end against zindoriyam: 26 reels found, 16 already
archived, 10 new ones fetched and published cleanly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011qAds5qr7nZRq5R4yAuxUk
ergosteurandClaude Sonnet 5