Are there any working tools to rip an entire Instagram account? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by BillionsMustSeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I don't have an account myself, and the photos and videos I'm trying to download en masse belong to a famous person's public account. Is there anything I can use to do it (as long as it's not creating an account lol), preferably proxied tools as apparently I get blocked while behind a VPN?

Thank you!

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[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Not sure if this would help in your case but I once was ripping images from a... Homework site.... and after recognizing all of the media files were named as _001, _002..., I created an if loop and used wget to mass download. Maybe Instagram does this for raw image links?

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago

Seriously be super careful doing that on... Homework... Sites, as they can and often do contain illegal imagery that the moderation teams might have missed.

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

I appreciate the thought. In this case, it was all around a particular model and I had already seen all of the images. It was just a faster method to write the code and execute (plus it gave me the chance to scream ULTIMATE POWER!!! as it ran) than individually downloading each image.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago

Hahaha valid and I've done something similar. As long as you know what you're going to be getting you should be set, I however downloaded an entire unintentionally exposed endpoint's dataset and got things I would rather never have seen and had to report to LEA.