insta-getty

Save any Instagram pictures or videos to the current working directory.

Install

$ npm install -g insta-getty

It doesn't have any dependencies!

CLI usage

$ insta-getty --help
Usage: insta-getty [options] <input>

Save any Instagram pictures or videos to the current working directory.

Options:
  -h, --help                Show this screen.
  -V, --version             Show version.
  -p, --profile <username>  Save the profile picture of the specified user.
  -f, --file <file>         Read URLs or media shortcodes from a text file.

Examples

Download one or more pictures/videos:

$ insta-getty https://www.instagram.com/p/BTRikD2AqIl/
$ insta-getty BTRikD2AqIl BTEdi5mgeMg BOs50vsj58P

Read URLs and/or shortcodes from a text file:

$ insta-getty --file links.txt

Where links.txt is a newline delimited text file that looks something like this:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTRikD2AqIl/
BPx0EX6DA7J
BT4JNe0A0m8

Download one or more user profile pictures:

$ insta-getty --profile kfc mcdonalds burgerking ...

Programmatic usage

const save = require('insta-getty');
const directory = __dirname;

// Save a photo or video
save.media('BTJeI2Ig4Tp', directory, (err, fileName) => {
  if (err) return console.log(err.message);
  else console.log(fileName);
});

// Save a profile picture
save.profilePicture('kfc', directory, (err, fileName) => {
  if (err) return console.log(err.message);
  else console.log(fileName);
});

License

MIT © zwebfek