Tool to download Instagram pictures (or videos) and captions from a given set of profiles (even if private), from your feed or from all followees of a given profile.
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Installation
Instaloader is written in Python, thus ensure having Python (at least version 3.5) installed.
If you intend to use this tool under Windows, it is recommended to install win-unicode-console.
If you have pip installed, you may install Instaloader using
pip3 install instaloader
Alternatively, to get the most current version of Instaloader from our Git repository:
pip3 install git+https://github.com/Thammus/instaloader
Instaloader requires requests, which will be installed automatically, if it is not already installed.
How to automatically download pictures from Instagram
To download a set of profiles, 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 profile, you may run
instaloader --fast-update profile [profile ...]
When --fast-update is given, Instaloader terminates when arriving at the first already-downloaded picture.
Instaloader can also be used to download private profiles. To do so, invoke it with
instaloader --login=your_username profile [profile ...]
When invoked like this, it also stores the session cookies in a file in /tmp, which will be reused later when --login is given. So you can download private profiles non-interactively when you already have a valid session cookie file.
If you want to download all followees of a given profile, call
instaloader --login=your_username @profile
To download all the pictures from your feed which you have liked, call
instaloader --login=your_username :feed-liked
The --quiet option makes it also suitable as a cron job.
To get a list of other helpful flags, run instaloader --help.
Usage as library
You may also use parts of Instaloader as library to do other interesting things.
For example, to get a list of all followers of a profile as well as their follower count, do
import instaloader
# login
session = instaloader.get_logged_in_session(USERNAME)
# get followees
followees = instaloader.get_followees(PROFILE, session)
for f in followees:
print("%i\t%s\t%s" % (f['follower_count'], f['username'], f['full_name']))Then, you may download all pictures of all followees with
for f in followees:
try:
instaloader.download(f['username'], session)
except instaloader.NonfatalException:
passYou could also download your last 20 liked pics with
instaloader.download_feed_pics(session, max_count=20, fast_update=True,
filter_func=lambda node: not node["likes"]["viewer_has_liked"])Each Instagram profile has its own unique ID which stays unmodified even if a user changes his/her username. To get said ID, given the profile’s name, you may call
instaloader.get_id_by_username(PROFILE_NAME)get_followees() also returns unique IDs for all loaded followees. To get the current username of a profile, given this unique ID get_username_by_id() can be used. For example:
instaloader.get_username_by_id(session, followees[0]['id'])Release history Release notifications | RSS feed
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