v1.0.0

Version [1.0.0] - Release Name (2025-04-11)

🚀 What's New

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✨ Features

• Dual Download Engines: Choose between instaloader and yt-dlp.
• Automatic Fallback: Seamlessly switches engines on failure.
• Automatic yt-dlp Updates: Checks for and installs the latest version of yt-dlp.
• Audio Transcription: Transcribe Reel audio to text using the included OpenAI Whisper model (base.pt) with support for multilingual transcription.
• Download Instagram Reels as .mp4.
• Extract and save thumbnails as .jpg.
• Save captions as .txt.
• Extract audio tracks as .mp3.
• Session-based folders timestamped on download.
• Batch queue management with progress bar.
• Lightweight & responsive PyQt6 GUI (Windows/macOS/Linux).

🔧 Improvements

• 🎉 Initial release with core download and UI functionality
• Dual Download Engines: Now powered by both instaloader and yt-dlp.
• User-Selectable Downloader: Choose your preferred download engine from the UI.
• Automatic Fallback: If one downloader fails, the app automatically switches to the other to ensure success.
• Enhanced Reliability: Improved download success rates for a wider range of Reels.

📊 Contributors

• Contributors: @ukr-projects

📞 Support

• 📧 Email: [email protected]
• 🐛 Issues: Repo Issues
• 🔓 Security: Repo Security
• ⛏ Pull Request: Repo Pull Request
• 📖 Docs: Repo Documentation
• 📃 Changelog: Repo Changelog

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*This release source code was tested on: Windows, MacOS and Ubuntu