nick-f/Download images from my Instagram profile easily.md

## browser_command.js
var images = document.querySelectorAll('._jjzlb > img'); images;

## Download images from my Instagram profile easily.md

      
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              Download images from my Instagram profile easily.md
            
          
    Hi future me,
Here's how I past me downloaded all of my Instagram photos easily. Remember, it doesn't download likes, comment, or any other information apart from the photos themselves.
For whatever reason Photoshop doesn't want to open the images but Preview works fine. It's the same when I manually downloaded the photos from the Instagram website. (Sabotage?)
And of course everyone else who isn't you will stop reading at this point and not use the instructions, right? Good. Now that it's just us...
Requirements


wget

Instructions


In your browser, go to your profile.
Click "Load More" and scroll down to load all of the images that you want to save from your profile.
Open the Developer console in your browser.
Paste the command from browser_command.js. This looks at the Instagram page source for all items that have a class of jjzlb and gets the img elements in them. (If Instagram changes that class name in the future then you'll need to update this).
Copy the resulting array into a file on your computer.
Set permissions for the .sh script. e.g. chmod u+x downloader.sh
Run it. ./downloader.sh images.txt

The images in the file will be saved with the description as the filename and a number at the start of each filename to keep them in order. If you've used this before and are wanting to keep the number of your photos going, change line 9 in downloader.sh to be whatever number you want it to start at next.

  
## downloader.sh
#!/bin/bash

if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
	echo "Error: Run the script with the filename as an argument."
	echo "Example: $0 images.txt"
else
	tail -r $1 > reversed

	i=1
	while read p; do
		imgtag=`echo $p | cut -d'"' -f 1`
		if [[ $imgtag == "<img alt=" ]]; then
			description=`echo -n $p | cut -d'"' -f 2`
			image=`echo -n $p | cut -d'"' -f 8`
			echo "Downloading $description"
			wget -q $image -O "$i - $description.jpg"
			((i++))
		fi
	done<reversed

	rm reversed
fi
	#!/bin/bash

	if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
	echo "Error: Run the script with the filename as an argument."
	echo "Example: $0 images.txt"
	else
	tail -r $1 > reversed

	i=1
	while read p; do
	imgtag=`echo $p \| cut -d'"' -f 1`
	if [[ $imgtag == "<img alt=" ]]; then
	description=`echo -n $p \| cut -d'"' -f 2`
	image=`echo -n $p \| cut -d'"' -f 8`
	echo "Downloading $description"
	wget -q $image -O "$i - $description.jpg"
	((i++))
	fi
	done<reversed

	rm reversed
	fi