Instaloader is in no way affiliated with, authorized, maintained or endorsed by Instagram or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. This is an independent and unofficial project.

On Arch Linux, you may install Instaloader using the Instaloader AUR package. On Windows 10, you may download the standalone executable from the current release page.

Instaloader exposes its internally used methods and structures, making it a powerful and intuitive Python API for Instagram, allowing to further customize obtaining media and metadata.

Here we explain the additional options that can be given to Instaloader to customize its behavior. For an introduction on how to use Instaloader, see Download Pictures from Instagram.

Here we present code examples that use the Python Module instaloader for more advanced Instagram downloading or metadata mining than what is possible with the Instaloader command line interface.

Documentation of Instaloader module, a powerful and intuitive Python library to download Instagram media and metadata.

TwoFactorAuthRequiredException – First step of 2FA login done, now call Instaloader.two_factor_login(). LoginException – An error happened during login (for example, an …

Instaloader’s login should work fine, both with and without Two-Factor-Authentication. It also supports handling the checkpoint challenge, issued when Instagram suspects authentication activity on your …

Loads a Post, Profile, StoryItem, Hashtag or FrozenNodeIterator from a json structure. Parameters: context – Instaloader.context linked to the new object, used for additional queries if necessary. …

A AbortDownloadException accessibility_caption (instaloader.Post property) allow_following (instaloader.Hashtag property) anonymous_copy () (instaloader.Instaloader method) …