Download Instagram Photos Fast. Smart. Beautiful.

Scrape entire Instagram profiles with concurrent downloads, smart rate limiting, and zero duplicates.

Quick Start (Currently Blocked by Instagram)

# Install with Homebrew
brew tap guitaripod/tap
brew install igscraper

# Run (will fail with 401 errors)
igscraper username

Get the Code Install Now

igscraper --tui

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│  ◆ IGScraper v2.0.0                      │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────╯

▸ Scraping: @guitaripod
▸ Profile:  1,337 photos • Public

Progress
╔══════════════════════════════════════════╗
║████████████████████████████████░░░░░░░░░░║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════╝ 78%

┌─────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
│ ▼ Downloaded   │ 1044/1,337 photos     │
│ ⚡ Speed        │ 25.1 photos/min      │
│ ◷ Time left    │ 11m 41s              │
│ ◉ Workers      │ 5 concurrent         │
│ ▪ Size         │ 2.61 GB              │
└─────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘

Status: ● Downloading high quality originals...

3x Faster

95% Test Coverage

0 Duplicates

How It Works

Get Credentials

Extract your Instagram session cookies from browser DevTools

IGSCRAPER_SESSION_ID="your_session"
IGSCRAPER_CSRF_TOKEN="your_token"

Configure

Set up via .env, YAML, or command line flags

download:
  concurrent: 5
  timeout: 30s

Run

Download with style using the TUI or simple progress bar

igscraper --tui username
# or quiet mode
igscraper -q username

Installation

📦 Arch Linux (AUR) Recommended for Arch

# Using yay
yay -S igscraper

# For development version
yay -S igscraper-git

🍺 Homebrew

brew tap guitaripod/tap
brew install igscraper

📦 Download Binary

# Intel Mac
curl -L https://github.com/guitaripod/igscraper/releases/latest/download/igscraper_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz
# Apple Silicon
curl -L https://github.com/guitaripod/igscraper/releases/latest/download/igscraper_Darwin_arm64.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv igscraper /usr/local/bin/

# AMD64
curl -L https://github.com/guitaripod/igscraper/releases/latest/download/igscraper_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz
# ARM64
curl -L https://github.com/guitaripod/igscraper/releases/latest/download/igscraper_Linux_arm64.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv igscraper /usr/local/bin/

# Download the zip file from:
# https://github.com/guitaripod/igscraper/releases/latest
# Extract and add to PATH

🛠️ Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/guitaripod/igscraper
cd igscraper
go build -o igscraper ./cmd/igscraper
sudo mv igscraper /usr/local/bin/

🐳 Docker

# Run with Docker
docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/downloads:/downloads \
  -e IGSCRAPER_SESSION_ID="your_session" \
  -e IGSCRAPER_CSRF_TOKEN="your_token" \
  ghcr.io/guitaripod/igscraper username

Configuration

Multiple ways to configure:

CLI Flags

Environment

YAML Config

# .igscraper.yaml
download:
  concurrent_downloads: 5
rate_limit:
  requests_per_minute: 60

Currently Non-Functional - Instagram API Changes (August 2025)