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Not to take anything from how great it is to have something like this, some of the supported sites have heavy rate limiting and bot detection and using this with your account can easily get you banned.

For example, I had immense difficulty parsing my own saved posts from instagram (used a one-off script that runs in the browser).

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There is instaloader [1]

[1] https://instaloader.github.io/

I had an account rate limited with this, though maybe I was using it wrong. It ended up forcing me to give it a mobile number to confirm which I didn't want to do.

Not sure why they'd do this when a spammer (not me) would just create a new account. I was just archiving twice a day with a random sleep time between accounts

I have been scraping regularly from Instagram (and a bunch of different sites) using gallery-dl for a while now, and I have yet to face any issues. Granted, I scrape at most only once a day, in a batch. So I don't know what problems you might face if you scrape more often.

The only rate-limit issues I've faced is with Twitter, because the way I do it is that I feed gallery-dl a text file containing the profile URLs that I want to scrape. But gallery-dl doesn't add a timeout in-between each input URLs, so Twitter might force a temporary cooldown on you if your list is a bit long.

But you can easily avoid this by writing your own shell script with your own custom timeout.

I wonder if there are any Instagram clients that are offline-first; save a copy of your posts locally before sending them to Instagram's servers.

The official Instagram client does this, at least for iOS - all of your posts get put in the "Instagram" Photos album.

Does Instagram not have an export function (similar to Facebook) for personal data to comply with CCPA and GDPR? If not, they should be reported to the appropriate regulatory bodies to encourage such an export function.

Disclaimer: I don’t have or use Insta, so apologies if this is a naive question.

They do. You can easily get all your photos, chats, etc using that feature.

https://www.facebook.com/help/instagram/181231772500920?help...

ah, but i want a tarball of every photo/photogallery that i have liked. This seems to just be what I’ve ever posted.

not sure if this is sarcasm, but photos you liked aren't yours so this would be violating their privacy rules.

I'm perfectly serious; i want to download a bunch of stupid memes that my account has liked and saved into various groups in my account over the years. They're public photos that shitpost accounts have posted.

Maybe you get the link or some id in your export.

If you find a way, please comment here again.I have saved thousands of posts and even sorted them. I desperately want to download them before nuking my account.

Your likes absolutely are your own interactions, and it's no violation of privacy to allow you access to data to which you already have access. You can't like it unless you can view it first. In fact (it's hidden but it's there) you can go back and view all of your past likes on Instagram.

This is not privacy, this is walled garden nonsense. Instagram thinks they own all your curation activity on the site, and they do not.

>privacy rules

Yet those are pictures posted on the Internet, I don't think people have a strong conviction that others can't save them

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