Instaloader

- Fix and significantly speed up download of Stories and Highlights (1633, 1675)
- Speed up profile picture URL comparison with `--latest-stamps` (1681)
- Fix wrong newline style in metadata text files on Windows (1623, 1632)

Thanks to fireattack for contributing these fixes!

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- Fix `--fast-update` and `--latest-stamps` in case a profile has pinned posts (1584, 1586)
- Make documentation explicit about importing multiple argument files (1548)
- Handle `StoryImage` in `StoryItem.url` (1558)

Thanks to ekalin, fireattack and ziemek99 for contributing these fixes!

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Thanks a lot to our sponsors for supporting this release!

If you are also interested in supporting the development of Instaloader, see https://instaloader.github.io/sponsors.html for a number of options.

- Fix fetching a users profile information (1523, 1553, 1561)
- Fix incorrect error messages when certain requests fail (1530, 1536)
- Fix `TypeError: normalize() argument 2 must be str, not None` error message (1471, 1475)

Thanks to MiguelX413, NicoWeio and twitter-79 for contributing these fixes!

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Thanks a lot to our sponsors for supporting this release!

If you are also interested in supporting the development of Instaloader, see https://instaloader.github.io/sponsors.html for a number of options.

- Properties `date_local` of `Post` and `StoryItem` now return timezone-aware datetime objects (1305, 1316, 1372)

Thanks to ekalin, fireattack, misaelitox, and otanim for contributing to this release!

This is a **pre-release**. Install with

pip3 install --pre [--upgrade] instaloader


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Thanks a lot to our sponsors for supporting this release!

If you are also interested in supporting the development of Instaloader, see https://instaloader.github.io/sponsors.html for a number of options.

**Fixes:**
- Fix download of hashtags (1080)
- Fix an issue with folder names starting with dots (1252)
- Fix KeyError for video_url when Post is invoked with a StoryItem structure (1320, 1321)

**New Features:**
- Add `--sanitize-paths` option (185, 710, 859, 1452)
- Property `Post.accessibility_caption`
- Method `Hashtag.get_posts_resumable()` to get Hashtags in a resumable fashion (NodeIterator)

**Other changes:**
- Removed `Hashtag.get_related_tags()` and `Hashtag.is_top_media_only` as these features were removed from Instagram
- Updated default User Agent string

**Fixes:**
- Fix download of hashtags (1080)
- Fix download of locations (1129)
- Fix an issue with folder names starting with dots (1252)
- Fix KeyError for video_url when Post is invoked with a StoryItem structure (1320, 1321)

**Other changes:**
- Property `Post.accessibility_caption`
- Method `Hashtag.get_posts_resumable()` to get Hashtags in a resumable fashion (NodeIterator)
- Removed `Hashtag.get_related_tags()` and `Hashtag.is_top_media_only` as these features were removed from Instagram
- Updated default User Agent string