Instagram Downloader

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

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

Why specify a cookie file?

• 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.

How to get your cookie file

• 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.)