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Download pictures (or videos) along with their captions and other metadata from Instagram.

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$ pip3 install instaloader

$ instaloader profile [profile ...]

Instaloader

  • downloads public and private profiles, hashtags, user stories, feeds and saved media,

  • downloads comments, geotags and captions of each post,

  • automatically detects profile name changes and renames the target directory accordingly,

  • allows fine-grained customization of filters and where to store downloaded media.

instaloader [--comments] [--geotags] [--stories]
            [--login YOUR-USERNAME] [--fast-update]
            profile | "#hashtag" | :stories | :feed | :saved

Instaloader Documentation

How to Automatically Download Pictures from Instagram

To download all pictures and videos of a profile, as well as the profile picture, do

instaloader profile [profile ...]

where profile is the name of a profile you want to download. Instead of only one profile, you may also specify a list of profiles.

To later update your local copy of that profiles, you may run

instaloader --fast-update profile [profile ...]

If --fast-update is given, Instaloader stops when arriving at the first already-downloaded picture. When updating profiles, Instaloader automatically detects profile name changes and renames the target directory accordingly.

Instaloader can also be used to download private profiles. To do so, invoke it with

instaloader --login=your_username profile [profile ...]

When logging in, Instaloader stores the session cookies in a file in your temporary directory, which will be reused later the next time --login is given. So you can download private profiles non-interactively when you already have a valid session cookie file.

Instaloader Documentation

Disclaimer

Instaloader is in no way affiliated with, authorized, maintained or endorsed by Instagram or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. This is an independent and unofficial project. Use at your own risk.

Instaloader is licensed under an MIT license. Refer to LICENSE file for more information.

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