Are there any working tools to rip an entire Instagram account? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by BillionsMustSeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I don't have an account myself, and the photos and videos I'm trying to download en masse belong to a famous person's public account. Is there anything I can use to do it (as long as it's not creating an account lol), preferably proxied tools as apparently I get blocked while behind a VPN?

Thank you!

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[-] Throbbing_Banjo@midwest.social 38 points 6 months ago

So uh.... Who ya creepin' on?

[-] BillionsMustSeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 6 months ago

Is it really creeping if the profile is public? Same thing as checking it daily with your Instagram account, but without the privacy issues

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 14 points 6 months ago

Checking in daily and viewing all their pics and videos does still feel like creeping yeah haha

[-] tarius@lemmy.ml 21 points 6 months ago

https://fmhy.net/social-media-tools#instagram-tools

[-] BillionsMustSeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago

Absolute GOAT. Thanks a lot

[-] AceSLS@ani.social 20 points 6 months ago

Don't know if it works without an account but gallery-dl supports Instagram

[-] UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago

I have experience with this, from a friend...

You can download without an account, but if I remember correctly it's only certain types of media with a quality restriction.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 6 months ago

Lol, even lower quality than Instagram butchers it when you upload? What's the restriction, 120p?

[-] BillionsMustSeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

I'll have to try it later, but since it says that it authenticates through cookies I thought it needed a login. Thank though

[-] tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 months ago

I recall a tool that might have been called Ramme did this. Used it when I deleted my IG account a long while back.

[-] yournamehere@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

osintgram works best for me

[-] Lemmchen@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago

I've successfully used https://instaloader.github.io/ in the past.

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Not sure if this would help in your case but I once was ripping images from a... Homework site.... and after recognizing all of the media files were named as _001, _002..., I created an if loop and used wget to mass download. Maybe Instagram does this for raw image links?

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago

Seriously be super careful doing that on... Homework... Sites, as they can and often do contain illegal imagery that the moderation teams might have missed.

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

I appreciate the thought. In this case, it was all around a particular model and I had already seen all of the images. It was just a faster method to write the code and execute (plus it gave me the chance to scream ULTIMATE POWER!!! as it ran) than individually downloading each image.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago

Hahaha valid and I've done something similar. As long as you know what you're going to be getting you should be set, I however downloaded an entire unintentionally exposed endpoint's dataset and got things I would rather never have seen and had to report to LEA.