Easy Instagram Downloader (Custom Script)

[hedgerow512]

I made a simple UI in Python to download content from Instagram profiles in their entirety, assuming you have gallery-dl properly installed.

https://github.com/hedgerow512/gallery-dl-easyinsta/tree/main

The program will only ask you two questions: The Instagram user which to download from and what to download (posts, reels, tagged media, stories, highlights). After that, it will create a directory in the folder it's running from and will automatically download to it, organizing posts, reels, etc into their own subfolders.

So, for example, you want to download only posts, reels, and stories from Mark Zuckerberg's profile @ zuck. You will input zuck when prompted for the user, and input posts,reels,stories when prompted for media selection. The program will create a new folder at ./zuck, with the associated downloaded files being stored in ./zuck/posts/, ./zuck/reels/, and ./zuck/stories/. I'd suggest running this in a directory dedicated to your Instagram saves every time you run this program for ease of file management, such as in ~/Desktop/InstagramSaves/.

The program will automatically import cookies from Firefox (though, you can change to a different browser if you desire). This is so you have access to all the media, assuming you're logged into Instagram in the browser.

My programming skills aren't that great, but it's good enough to get the job done easily. After using gallery-dl for a few days for multiple jobs, scrolling back and forth in the terminal to edit the commands for a specific user, manually needing to organize the downloaded content myself, I find this method much easier and faster to work with, and it only took me about 40 lines of code! I freaking love Python!

NOTE: If you run this program on Windows, you should replace os.system('clear') with os.system('cls') in the source code. Mac and Linux users need not to change anything.

[rautamiekka]

Careful with the @ sign.

[hedgerow512]

Thanks for the heads up. I edited my text to be less destructive.

[Hrxn]

ping @hedgerow512

I guess this can be closed?