# spools 🧵 [![docs.rs](https://img.shields.io/docsrs/spools)](https://docs.rs/spools) [![Crates.io Total Downloads](https://img.shields.io/crates/d/spools)](https://lib.rs/spools) [![builds.sr.ht status](https://builds.sr.ht/~nixgoat/spools.svg)](https://builds.sr.ht/~nixgoat/spools?) spools is a content scraping library for Instagram's [Threads](https://threads.net). spools aims to provide a more comfortable interface than Threads' cumbersome and obfuscated internal API, with the added bonus of not requiring an account. spools is co-developed alongside [Shoelace](https://sr.ht/~nixgoat/shoelace), an alternative frontend for Threads. ## Contributing Send patches to [the mailing list](https://lists.sr.ht/~nixgoat/public-inbox). Prefix patches with "`[PATCH spools]`". See [the guide to `git send-email`](https://git-send-email.io) if this is your first time using sourcehut. ## License spools is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or later. Refer to [the License](LICENSE) for details.