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.. meta::
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:description:
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How to download pictures from Instagram. Description of basic
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usage of Instaloader, free tool to download photos from public
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and private profiles, hashtags, stories, feeds, saved media, and
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their metadata, comments and captions.
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Download Pictures from Instagram
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.. highlight:: none
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.. NOTE that Section "Basic Usage" is duplicated in README.rst.
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Basic Usage
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^^^^^^^^^^^
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To **download all pictures and videos of a profile**, as well as the
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**profile picture**, do
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::
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instaloader profile [profile ...]
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where ``profile`` is the name of a profile you want to download. Instead
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of only one profile, you may also specify a list of profiles.
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To later **update your local copy** of that profiles, you may run
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::
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instaloader --fast-update profile [profile ...]
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If :option:`--fast-update` is given, Instaloader stops when arriving at the
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first already-downloaded picture. When updating profiles, Instaloader
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automatically **detects profile name changes** and renames the target directory
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accordingly.
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Instaloader can also be used to **download private profiles**. To do so,
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invoke it with
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::
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instaloader --login=your_username profile [profile ...]
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When logging in, Instaloader **stores the session cookies** in a file in your
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temporary directory, which will be reused later the next time :option:`--login`
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is given. So you can download private profiles **non-interactively** when you
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already have a valid session cookie file.
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.. _what-to-download:
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What to Download
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Instaloader supports the following targets:
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``profile``
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Public profile, or private profile with :option:`--login`. For each profile
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you download, :option:`--stories` instructs Instaloader to also
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**download the user's stories**.
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``"#hashtag"``
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Posts with a certain **hashtag** (the quotes are usually neccessary),
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``:stories``
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The currently-visible **stories** of your followees (requires
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:option:`--login`),
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``:feed``
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Your **feed** (requires :option:`--login`),
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``:saved``
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Posts which are marked as **saved** (requires :option:`--login`),
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``@profile``
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All profiles that are followed by ``profile``, i.e. the *followees* of
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``profile`` (requires :option:`--login`).
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Instaloader goes through all media matching the specified targets and
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downloads the pictures and videos and their captions. You can specify
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- :option:`--comments`, to also **download comments** of each post,
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- :option:`--geotags`, to **download geotags** of each post and save them as
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Google Maps link,
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- :option:`--metadata-json`, to store further post metadata in a separate JSON
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file.
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.. _filename-specification:
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Filename Specification
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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For each target, Instaloader creates a directory named after the target,
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i.e. ``profile``, ``#hashtag``, ``:feed``, etc. and therein saves the
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posts in files named after the post's timestamp.
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:option:`--dirname-pattern` allows to configure the directory name of each
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target. The default is ``--dirname-pattern={target}``. In the dirname
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pattern, the token ``{target}`` is replaced by the target name, and
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``{profile}`` is replaced by the owner of the post which is downloaded.
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:option:`--filename-pattern` configures the path of the post's files relative
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to the target directory. The default is ``--filename-pattern={date}``.
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The tokens ``{target}`` and ``{profile}`` are replaced like in the
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dirname pattern. Further, the tokens ``{date}``, ``{date_utc}`` and ``{shortcode}`` are
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defined. Additionally, in case of not downloading stories, the attributes of
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:class:`.Post` can be used, e.g. ``{post.owner_id}`` or ``{post.mediaid}``.
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For example, encode the poster's profile name in the filenames with:
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instaloader --filename-pattern={date}_{profile} "#hashtag"
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The pattern string is formatted with Python's string formatter. This
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gives additional flexibilty for pattern specification. For example,
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`strftime-style formatting options <https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior>`__
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are supported for the post's
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timestamp. The default for ``{date}`` is ``{date:%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S}``.
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.. _filter-posts:
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Filter Posts
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^^^^^^^^^^^^
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The :option:`--only-if` option allows to specify criterias that posts have to
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meet to be downloaded. If not given, all posts are downloaded. It must be a
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boolean Python expression where the variables :attr:`.likes`, :attr:`.comments`,
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:attr:`.viewer_has_liked`, :attr:`.is_video`, and many more are defined.
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A few examples:
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To **download the pictures from your feed that you have liked**:
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instaloader --login=your_username --only-if=viewer_has_liked :feed
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Or you might only want to download **posts that either you liked or were
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liked by many others**:
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instaloader --login=your_username --only-if="likes>100 or viewer_has_liked" profile
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Or you may **skip videos**:
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::
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instaloader --only-if="not is_video" target
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Or you may filter by hashtags that occur in the Post's caption. For
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example, to download posts of kittens that are cute: ::
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instaloader --only-if="'cute' in caption_hashtags" "#kitten"
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The given string is evaluated as a
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`Python boolean expression <https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#boolean-operations>`__,
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where all occuring variables are attributes of the :class:`.Post` class.
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