🐍 Instaloader: Download pictures (or videos) along with their captions and other metadata from Instagram

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Package name: Instaloader
GitHub repo: https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader

Doc: Download Pictures from Instagram — Instaloader documentation

Instaloader can also be used to download private profiles. To do so, invoke it with

instaloader --login=your_username profile [profile ...]

When logging in, Instaloader stores the session cookies in a file in your home directory, which will be reused later the next time --login is given. So you can download private profiles non-interactively when you already have a valid session cookie file.

What to Download¶

Instaloader supports the following targets:

• • profile

    Public profile, or private profile with login.

    If an already-downloaded profile has been renamed, Instaloader automatically finds it by its unique ID and renames the folder accordingly.

    Besides the profile’s posts, its current profile picture is downloaded. For each profile you download,

    • • --stories

        instructs Instaloader to also download the user’s stories,

    • • --highlights

        to download the highlights of that profile,

    • • --tagged

        to download posts where the user is tagged, and

    • • --igtv

        to download IGTV videos.