Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com BillionsMustSeed @lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 mo. ago

Are there any working tools to rip an entire Instagram account?

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!

solved: https://lemmy.ml/comment/10170544

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So uh.... Who ya creepin' on?
- Is it really creeping if the profile is public? Same thing as checking it daily with your Instagram account, but without the privacy issues
  
  Checking in daily and viewing all their pics and videos does still feel like creeping yeah haha
  
  It is creeping. If your neighbor goes outside in public and you stare at her from your window blinds, with the lights out just so you can see her ankles twice a day. Yes, she is in public and you are only looking, but the obsession is not normal behavior.
Don't know if it works without an account but gallery-dl supports Instagram
- 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.
  
  Lol, even lower quality than Instagram butchers it when you upload? What's the restriction, 120p?
- I'll have to try it later, but since it says that it authenticates through cookies I thought it needed a login. Thank though
https://fmhy.net/social-media-tools#instagram-tools
- Absolute GOAT. Thanks a lot
I recall a tool that might have been called Ramme did this. Used it when I deleted my IG account a long while back.
osintgram works best for me
I've successfully used https://instaloader.github.io/ in the past.
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?
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  Absolutely weirdo
- This worked for me before but I had to update my user-agent string in wget.
- I feel out of the loop here. What's a homework site?
  
  Porn. It's porn. Like the old gag of having a "Homework" folder on your computer.

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