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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!

solved: https://lemmy.ml/comment/10170544

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So uh.... Who ya creepin' on?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is it really creeping if the profile is public? Same thing as checking it daily with your Instagram account, but without the privacy issues

[–] Lmaydev 14 points 5 months ago

Checking in daily and viewing all their pics and videos does still feel like creeping yeah haha

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Absolute GOAT. Thanks a lot

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Don't know if it works without an account but gallery-dl supports Instagram

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have experience with this, from a friend...

You can download without an account, but if I remember correctly it's only certain types of media with a quality restriction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Lol, even lower quality than Instagram butchers it when you upload? What's the restriction, 120p?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I'll have to try it later, but since it says that it authenticates through cookies I thought it needed a login. Thank though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I recall a tool that might have been called Ramme did this. Used it when I deleted my IG account a long while back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

osintgram works best for me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Absolutely weirdo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This worked for me before but I had to update my user-agent string in wget.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel out of the loop here. What's a homework site?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Porn. It's porn. Like the old gag of having a "Homework" folder on your computer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Neat! * thumb up *

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I've successfully used https://instaloader.github.io/ in the past.