Saves all photos and videos in a json file of instagram photos.

photos.json

// json file should be formatted something like
{
  "data": {
    "photos": [
      {
        ...
        "images": {
          "low_resolution": {
            "url": "http://distilleryimage3.s3.amazonaws.com/###_6.jpg",
            "width": 306,
            "height": 306
          },
          "thumbnail": {
            "url": "http://distilleryimage3.s3.amazonaws.com/###_5.jpg",
            "width": 150,
            "height": 150
          },
          "standard_resolution": {
            "url": "http://distilleryimage3.s3.amazonaws.com/###_7.jpg",
            "width": 612,
            "height": 612
          },
          ...
        },
        {
          ...
          "videos": {
            "low_resolution": {
              "url": "http://distilleryimage7.s3.amazonaws.com/###_102.mp4",
              "width": 480,
              "height": 480
            },
            "standard_resolution": {
              "url": "http://distilleryimage7.s3.amazonaws.com/###_101.mp4",
              "width": 640,
              "height": 640
            }
          },
          "type": "video",
          "images": {
            "low_resolution": {
              "url": "http://distilleryimage7.s3.amazonaws.com/###_6.jpg",
              "width": 306,
              "height": 306
            },
            "thumbnail": {
              "url": "http://distilleryimage7.s3.amazonaws.com/###_5.jpg",
              "width": 150,
              "height": 150
            },
            "standard_resolution": {
              "url": "http://distilleryimage7.s3.amazonaws.com/###_7.jpg",
              "width": 612,
              "height": 612
            }
          }
          ...
        }     
      }
    ]
  }
}

save_instagrams.py

import urllib
import json
import os

def saveImage(path, dir):
  directory = dir + "/" + os.path.basename(path)
	# check if path exists yet. If not, then create it
	if not os.path.exists(dir):
		os.makedirs(dir)
	f = open(directory,'wb')
	f.write(urllib.urlopen(path).read())
	f.close()

# open and load photo json
json_data=open('photos.json')
data = json.load(json_data)

# loop through "photos"
for i in data['data']['photos']:
	# save all resolutions of images
	saveImage(i['images']['thumbnail']['url'], 'thumb');
	saveImage(i['images']['low_resolution']['url'], 'low');
	saveImage(i['images']['standard_resolution']['url'], 'standard');
	
	# save both resolutions of videos
	try:
		saveImage(i['videos']['standard_resolution']['url'], 'video_standard');
		saveImage(i['videos']['low_resolution']['url'], 'video_low');
	except:
		print 'no video'

json_data.close()