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Issue in :saved

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instaloader version: 4.9b1

.../files/instaloader $ instaloader --login=username :saved

Loaded session from /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.config/instaloader/session-username.
Logged in as username
Retrieving saved posts...
[   1/1332] Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/instaloader", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('instaloader==4.9b1', 'console_scripts', 'instaloader')())
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/instaloader/__main__.py", line 467, in main
    _main(loader,
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/instaloader/__main__.py", line 178, in _main
    instaloader.download_saved_posts(fast_update=fast_update, max_count=max_count,
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/instaloader/instaloader.py", line 81, in call
    return func(instaloader, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/instaloader/instaloader.py", line 1076, in download_saved_posts
    self.posts_download_loop(node_iterator, ":saved",
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/instaloader/instaloader.py", line 1007, in posts_download_loop
    downloaded = self.download_post(post, target=target)
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/instaloader/instaloader.py", line 667, in download_post
    filename = self.__prepare_filename(filename_template, lambda: post.url)
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/instaloader/instaloader.py", line 625, in __prepare_filename
    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(filename), exist_ok=True)
  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.10/os.py", line 225, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: ':saved'

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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Thammuscommented, Dec 18, 2021

This is a known problem on file systems that do not support certain characters (#575) like :. However, you can use –dirname-pattern to specify a different target directory.

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Thammuscommented, Jan 15, 2022

Such a functionality has been discussed in #576 and related issues (like PR #854).