Instagram Downloader by Micha Birklbauer

A python script to download public (and private) pictures, videos and albums from Instagram.

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WARNING

Instagram deprecated their public API and this repository will not be maintained any longer. Programs/Scripts or parts of them do not work anymore! USE AT OWN RISK!

Requirements

Python (version 3.6 or higher)

Features

Download a single picture/video/album by passing the link as a parameter to the script
Download multiple pictures/videos/albums by passing a file list to the script (as parameter)

Usage

Examples:

Download a single post:

./instaload.py -url https://www.instagram.com/p/B27CH9qjDFa/

Recommended: Download a single post with specified cookie file:

./instaload.py -url https://www.instagram.com/p/B27CH9qjDFa/ -c cookie.txt

Download multiple posts using a filelist (e.g. links.txt):
```
./instaload.py -f links.txt
```
Recommended: Download multiple posts with specified cookie file:
```
./instaload.py -f links.txt -c cookie.txt
```

Instagram will not time out your API requests after downloading a few posts.
Access to the newer API version with higher resolution pictures.
Ability to download posts from private profiles that you follow.

Open your browser and login to Instagram.
Open the developer console.
Go to network and access the Instagram API by loading an Instagram page with postfix “?__a=1” e.g. “https://www.instagram.com/instagram/?__a=1”
You should see a GET request to “/instagram/?__a=1”, click it and go to the request header and copy all the text that is in “Cookie” into a txt file.
Done!
(An exemplary cookie file cookie.txt is given for illustration purposes.)