Ridley ( A modified Turtle Instagram Photo Downloader)

• Your username and your password won't be stored.
• Whether or not you have two factor authentication in your Instagram account or not, this will still work.
• It uses Selenium and Chrome
  • The driver is being asked at the beginning of the program.

Requirements

• Python 3.6+
• Selenium
• panda
• Chrome Driver for Selenium

How to install and run

1. Download the source from Github
   • git clone https://github.com/trevorbakker-uta/ridley.git
   • cd ridley
2. Install requirements
   • pip3 install -r requirements.txt
   • pip3 install panda
3. Download the Chrome drivers.
   • Download and install ChromeDriver - Download ChromeDriver - Moved the ChromeDriver executable to /usr/bin/ (may need sudo) `

Usage

Simply call python3 turtle_console.py -v True

Choose the Chrome driver.

It will ask for your Instagram username and password for logging in. Then it will ask for a username which user's photo you want to download.

You can download:

• All user's photos
• Just the last stories you do not have
• Number of photos

Advanced Usage

usage: turtle_console.py [-h] [-u] [-p] [-d] [-P] [-l] [-D] [-v]

Fetch all the lectures for a Instagram

optional arguments:
  -h, --help        show this help message and exit
  -u , --username   User username
  -p , --password   User password
  -d , --driver     Choosen Driver. [1]PantomJS [2]Chrome [3]Firefox
  -P , --path       The path for saving photos.
  -l , --list       List of Usernames
  -D , --download   Download choice. [1]Update(Default for list) [2]Full
  -v , --video      Download videos or not. [True]Download [False] Do Not
                    Download
  -s, --start       The start date to start saving posts
  -e, --end         The end date to start saving posts
  
  For example, to save posts from 1/3/19 to 3/3/19 and my user account is tbakker with password "mypassword"
  
  python3 turtle_console.py -v True -u tbakker -p mypassword -s 2019-01-03 -e 2019-03-03
  
  You will then be prompted for the instagram user to save

Config.Json File

This file can be used for saving login data and path for photos. Nothing is saved automatically to here even if you change the file.

• driver : (int) Driver you want to use as default (1 or 2 or 3)
• username : (string) User's username
• password : (string) User's pass
• path : (string) The path for saving photos. Default value is photos
  • Exp : path/photos or ../path/photos