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This application comes handy when you wish to delete an Instagram account but wish to keep your collection of images. As this app uses user credentials to open their account and then look for their friend’s ID and download their photos.

SOURCE CODE

""" Instagram Photo Downloader
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"""
from sys import argv
import urllib
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import datetime
def ShowHelp():
    print 'Insta Image Downloader'
    print ''
    print 'Usage:'
    print 'insta.py [OPTION] [URL]'
    print ''
    print 'Options:'
    print '-u [Instagram URL]\tDownload single photo from Instagram URL'
    print '-f [File path]\t\tDownload Instagram photo(s) using file list'
    print '-h, --help\t\tShow this help message'
    print ''
    print 'Example:'
    print 'python insta.py -u https://instagram.com/p/xxxxx'
    print 'python insta.py -f /home/username/filelist.txt'
    print ''
    exit()
def DownloadSingleFile(fileURL):
    print 'Downloading image...'
    f = urllib.urlopen(fileURL)
    htmlSource = f.read()
    soup = BeautifulSoup(htmlSource,'html.parser')
    metaTag = soup.find_all('meta', {'property':'og:image'})
    imgURL = metaTag[0]['content']
    fileName = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S") + '.jpg'
    urllib.urlretrieve(imgURL, fileName)
    print 'Done. Image saved to disk as ' + fileName
if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(argv) == 1:
        ShowHelp()
    if argv[1] in ('-h', '--help'):
        ShowHelp()
    elif argv[1] == '-u':
        instagramURL = argv[2]
        DownloadSingleFile(instagramURL)
    elif argv[1] == '-f':
        filePath = argv[2]
        f = open(filePath)
        line = f.readline()
        while line:
            instagramURL = line.rstrip('\n')
            DownloadSingleFile(instagramURL)
            line = f.readline()
        f.close()