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!

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[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Not sure if this would help in your case but I once was ripping images from a... Homework site.... and after recognizing all of the media files were named as _001, _002..., I created an if loop and used wget to mass download. Maybe Instagram does this for raw image links?

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Seriously be super careful doing that on... Homework... Sites, as they can and often do contain illegal imagery that the moderation teams might have missed.

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate the thought. In this case, it was all around a particular model and I had already seen all of the images. It was just a faster method to write the code and execute (plus it gave me the chance to scream ULTIMATE POWER!!! as it ran) than individually downloading each image.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

Hahaha valid and I've done something similar. As long as you know what you're going to be getting you should be set, I however downloaded an entire unintentionally exposed endpoint's dataset and got things I would rather never have seen and had to report to LEA.

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago

Absolutely weirdo

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This worked for me before but I had to update my user-agent string in wget.

[–] xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel out of the loop here. What's a homework site?

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Porn. It's porn. Like the old gag of having a "Homework" folder on your computer.

[–] xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Neat! * thumb up *