Backup stories, photos and videos of any accounts on Instagram

README.md

Backup stories, photos and videos on instagram

Installation

1. pip install instagram-scraper
2. Write the desired accounts to a file targets.txt
3. Change the username and password in scraper.py
4. Run scraper.py

Folder structure

E:.
│   instagram-scraper.log
│   scraper.py
│   targets.txt
│
├───images
│   ├───durov
│   └───kevin
├───stories
│   ├───durov
│   └───kevin
├───videos
│   ├───durov
│   └───kevin

Tips

• You can download multiple profiles at the same time.
• You can add a script to a dedicated server and run on the cron - you will get autosave of all stories and photos that can be deleted by the author. By the way, when you re-run the script, saving will begin from the photo where you stopped last time.

requirements.txt

instagram-scraper>=1.9.0

scraper.py

import subprocess

username = "your_username"
password = "your_password"

download_story = subprocess.run(["instagram-scraper", "-f", "targets.txt", "--media-types", "story", "-n", "-d", "stories", "-u", username, "-p", password, "--latest", "--include-location", "--profile-metadata"])
download_image = subprocess.run(["instagram-scraper", "-f", "targets.txt", "--media-types", "image", "-n", "-d", "images", "-u", username, "-p", password, "--latest", "--include-location", "--profile-metadata"])
download_video = subprocess.run(["instagram-scraper", "-f", "targets.txt", "--media-types", "video", "-n", "-d", "videos", "-u", username, "-p", password, "--latest", "--include-location", "--profile-metadata"])

targets.txt

# The usernames may be separated by newlines, commas, semicolons, or whitespace.
kevin
durov
# etc