looio / Instagram-Downloader

Collection of crawlers capable of downloading media files without using Instagram's API

Instagram NO-API Downloaders

Instagram crawler capable of asynchronously download media (images/videos) files of any public user without using Instagram's API.

This is meant to be part of a larger project I'm contemplating on implementing.

I will update this repo as I find new ways to implement it without using Instagram's API. So far I implemented 2 different ways.

1. Gather images from 3rd party service like webstagram. (instagramCrawler1.py)
2. Use the .json data instagram stores under /media/ and iterate its content (instagramCrawler2.py)

Here are some other ways I haven't had the time to implement:

1. use a testing framework such as selenium to open a browser and iterate through the dynamically generated content.
2. Use a headless browser to load dynamically generated contents.

Warning

Before you use this crawler, make sure you obtain permission from the instagram user to download their images. I do not approve of any usage of this script without the original user's consent.

Usage

All the scripts I upload will follow the format stated below:

instagramCrawlerX.py [username]

Dependencies

Python 3

instagramCrawler1.py requires BeautifulSoup

License

MIT License