I don’t have an account myself, and the photos and videos I’m trying to download en masse belong to a famous person’s public account. Is there anything I can use to do it (as long as it’s not creating an account lol), preferably proxied tools as apparently I get blocked while behind a VPN?
Thank you!
- Throbbing_Banjo ( @Throbbing_Banjo@midwest.social ) English42•6 months ago
So uh… Who ya creepin’ on?
Is it really creeping if the profile is public? Same thing as checking it daily with your Instagram account, but without the privacy issues
- IllNess ( @IllNess@infosec.pub ) English27•6 months ago
It is creeping. If your neighbor goes outside in public and you stare at her from your window blinds, with the lights out just so you can see her ankles twice a day. Yes, she is in public and you are only looking, but the obsession is not normal behavior.
Thanks for the psychological evaluation!
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English9•6 months ago
This instagram user is not just outside the public. They are not just a random person walking on the street, but someone who has printed pictures of themselves on paper and glued it to lamp posts and bus stops. They decided to do that, despite it not being needed for access to the platform, and also they decided that the content should be accessible publicly.
- Lmaydev ( @Lmaydev@programming.dev ) English13•6 months ago
Checking in daily and viewing all their pics and videos does still feel like creeping yeah haha
- tarius ( @tarius@lemmy.ml ) English22•6 months ago
Absolute GOAT. Thanks a lot
- Ace! _SL/S ( @AceSLS@ani.social ) English19•6 months ago
Don’t know if it works without an account but gallery-dl supports Instagram
- Spectranox ( @UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•6 months ago
I have experience with this, from a friend…
You can download without an account, but if I remember correctly it’s only certain types of media with a quality restriction.
- lemmyvore ( @lemmyvore@feddit.nl ) English1•6 months ago
Lol, even lower quality than Instagram butchers it when you upload? What’s the restriction, 120p?
I’ll have to try it later, but since it says that it authenticates through cookies I thought it needed a login. Thank though
- tasankovasara ( @tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz ) English6•6 months ago
I recall a tool that might have been called Ramme did this. Used it when I deleted my IG account a long while back.
- ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ ( @yournamehere@lemm.ee ) English3•6 months ago
osintgram works best for me
- Lemmchen ( @Lemmchen@feddit.de ) English2•6 months ago
I’ve successfully used https://instaloader.github.io/ in the past.