instant-liberation
v0.13.0
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Want to leave Instagram, or integrate a feed on your website in a GDPR friendly way?
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Instant Liberation
Want to leave Instagram, or integrate a feed on your website in a GDPR friendly way?
This project offers you a CLI that can download data from instagram and mirror its contents, even for private profiles.
Installation
Make sure Node.js is installed and up-to-date:
brew install node
Install
instalib
globally vianpm
:npm install -g instant-liberation
If you can't or don't want to install it globally, just drop the
-g
flag and either create theinstalib
command in yourpackage.json
, or run it withnpx instalib
.
Usage
Store session (for private profiles):
instalib login
A browser will open. Simply log in and close the browser window again. Your session is now cached until it expires.
⚠️ The session information will be saved in your home directory in
~/.instalib
. The folder can be removed at any point and is not used for anything else.Download profile data:
instalib liberate <url_to_profile> -o instagram.yml
Mirror images and videos:
instalib mirror instagram.yml
Only
detail.display_url
is mirrored by default (the full size images). If you want to mirror additional files, just call the command repeatedly with different flags, e.g.:instalib mirror instagram.yml -f detail.display_url -o media/images/ instalib mirror instagram.yml -f detail.video_url -o media/videos/
Once downloaded, the field in the data file will be replaced by the relative path to the downloaded file. If the command fails due to an Instagram block, simply re-run the command again and it will skip already downloaded files.