What about tiktok? Is there any way to see a private tiktok profile without sending follow request?
Not possible either, best you can try is follow from a fake account and use that cookie to get the video with yt-dlp
What do you guys use on PC to record ongoing instagram lives? I have tried a couple of HLS extensions but have not found anything that works seamless without any quality loss etc.
I don't do that with lives, in fact it is rare that I try to farm instagram accounts but I did it a couple of times.
You could try yt-dlp with this command and the URL from the live video:
| EXE | ARGUMENTS | DOWNLOAD PATH | URL |
yt-dlp.exe --restrict-filenames --downloader ffmpeg --hls-use-mpegts -o "E:\Downloads\%(title)s_.%(ext)s" https://URLWITHVIDEO
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Thanks for the tip but unfortunately I have it a try and it didn't work. Instagram requires you to be logged in to view lives which means that the yt-dlp gets a redirect url to the login page instead of the live url.
For example:
https://www.instagram.com/lil.lils777/live/redirects to:
https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Flil.lils777%2Flive%2F%3F__coig_login%3D1
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I think you could use cookies with you login with yt-dlp, maybe that could bypass the login page; however you will have to investigate that in yt-dlp github because I never use such option.
Yo guys. In case anyone is using gallery-dl to download from instagram, here's an update to the guide I posted in this thread a while ago.
In your config file, add this to your highlights config :
This will make it so highlights get download from earliest file to oldest, instead of the default which is oldest to newest, and it will stop scraping after 5 consecutive files have been skipped (files you already have). This is especially useful when updating a highlights you had already downloaded in the past. This results in less requests to instagram servers, which not only saves you time, but also reduces the risk of being detected.
In the main instagram config I also increased the sleep to 1.5-5s and the sleep-request to 9-17s out of precaution, because after all I can just let it run in the background slowly.
I've been downloading using the same account since I made the guide, so since may, and haven't gotten a single warning or ban or anything on it. Seems like the key is to have as few requests as possible, long sleep timers, and to make sure the user-agent is matching your browser when you update it.
In your config file, add this to your highlights config :
This will make it so highlights get download from earliest file to oldest, instead of the default which is oldest to newest, and it will stop scraping after 5 consecutive files have been skipped (files you already have). This is especially useful when updating a highlights you had already downloaded in the past. This results in less requests to instagram servers, which not only saves you time, but also reduces the risk of being detected.
In the main instagram config I also increased the sleep to 1.5-5s and the sleep-request to 9-17s out of precaution, because after all I can just let it run in the background slowly.
I've been downloading using the same account since I made the guide, so since may, and haven't gotten a single warning or ban or anything on it. Seems like the key is to have as few requests as possible, long sleep timers, and to make sure the user-agent is matching your browser when you update it.
SCrawler should do, it's not as easy as 4K Stogram and has a bit of a learning curve but it works. The dev is really active on GitHub and Discord
I tried 4k Stogram on a new account, and it's working fine on my end. 4.6.3 version so I would try that again
you are not facing problem using 4kstogram because whenever i use it fu*** up my account i keep receiving messsages on instagra 4m to change my account password or getting msg like your account has been for unwanted activities something like this.
GREC
Hi guys, is there currently a way to download stories/highlight videos from a premium account if you follow that account?
Maybe a FF/Chrome add-on? I can see the video right in front of me, but the instagram redesign add-on doesn't work for videos :s
Maybe a FF/Chrome add-on? I can see the video right in front of me, but the instagram redesign add-on doesn't work for videos :s
gallery-dl
Python command line program that you can give your cookies to, to download from private accounts you follow.
I made a guide here : https://simpcity.su/threads/best-tool-to-download-from-instagram.97910/page-4#post-2123499
And a update to the guide here : https://simpcity.su/threads/best-tool-to-download-from-instagram.97910/page-5#post-2637158
Also, I would recommend increasing sleep-request and sleep a little more than what I put in the guide, just to be safe. I've been using 9-17s and 1.5-5s for 9 months and got no warning from instagram or anything.
You can skip steps 8 and 9 if you're planning to use your main account.
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I use the cmd line and been use gldl for years now so idk about .exe
If you are using cmd line you don't have to call --cookies everytime, if you are using his extractor config for gallery-dl just add a line in your .json
"cookies":The path directory of your cookies files (If you are on Windows, for your path directory add \\ , if there is only one, the program wont like it so it would be like for exemple (you don't have to follow the same structure) "C:\\Users\\***\\***\\(YOUR COOKIE FILES).txt" )
And so it will allow you to just call gallery-dl and put the url
gallery-dl (Insta url here)I also advise ppl to go on the github of Gallery-dl to optimise their JSON, i did mine myself using the doc but you will see people doing stuff that you didn't thought and it will optimize your config and you will download it much faster without putting your account at risk, same for me, my config is different from him but i haven't got any problem with insta
I know you can put the cookies directly in the config file, but the point of putting the cookies in the command line is that you can have multiple intagram accounts with a different cookies files for each. I probably should have mentioned that.
For example, I have three instagram accounts, and depending on whether or not I'm following a private account with one or not, I'll use a different cookies file, and I find that having multiple config files or going in the config file to change it is more tedious than just different command lines. It also lets me rotate between the three accounts to download every day so it's even less likely that instagram notices suspicious activity.
Could you share what your config looks like for instagram or what modifications you made for it, generally ? I've been looking to optimize mine further but thought I exhausted the possible options for the instagram extractor.