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It processes between 2-3 posts per second.
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## Can I make it run faster?
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Running without the `--full` and `-d` arguments is faster. Disabling grafting with `-g=false` will also make the scraping quicker.
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Running without the `--full` and `-d` arguments is faster.
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Reducing the time between interactions with the page only seems to induce rate limiting. Additionally, scraping does not appear to be parallelisable because the pagination between requests doesn't use time codes.
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Not using `--sync` and customising the `-k` option can make downloading files quicker.
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If you want something *really* fast, try [Instaphyte](https://github.com/ScriptSmith/instaphyte). It's as much as 7x faster.
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Disabling grafting with `-g=false` will make the scraping quicker at the cost of not being able to access all posts (see [here](#what-happens-if-i-disable-grafting)).
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Setting `--sleep` to a decimal number below 1 speeds up page interactions at the cost of stability, as it makes you more likely to be rate limited.
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Scraping is not parallelisable (see [here](#can-i-run-multiple-instances-at-the-same-time-rather-than-batch-scraping)).
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Using `--plugin LargeFist` is as much as 5x faster, but may result in undefined behavior.
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If you want something *really* fast, try [Instaphyte](https://github.com/ScriptSmith/instaphyte). It's as much as 12x faster.
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## Can I run multiple instances at the same time rather than batch scraping?
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No. Instagram will probably rate-limit your IP address and then Instamancer will have to pause until the limit is lifted.

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