Username & Social Media Tracking
Instaloader
Downloads Instagram photos, videos, captions and metadata from public profiles.
Instaloader is an open-source command-line utility that retrieves photos, videos, captions, and associated metadata from public Instagram profiles. It is commonly used by researchers and investigators to archive publicly available social media content for analysis or documentation purposes.
Dual-use tool. This tool can be used for research and investigation, and also to find, track or identify people without their consent. Listing it here is not an endorsement of either use.
Privacy note. Instaloader downloads Instagram photos, videos, captions, comments, geotags and metadata from profiles, so the posts on an account can be saved in bulk by anyone who runs it. Its documentation says it can also download private profiles when run with its login option.
Official site: https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader
Source: https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader
Last verified 2026-08-31.
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