How to download all your Instagram content

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The Cambridge Analytica scandal, together with the new data protection law that will take effect across Europe from May 25, is forcing many companies, mainly those that are part of the Facebook conglomerate, to make changes to the terms of use in addition to improving access to our privacy settings.

Previously in Actualidad Gadget, we have published two tutorials in which we show you how to download our Facebook data y how to download all the data of the services offered by Google. We have also shown you how we can know which are the applications that have access to our Google account. Today it is the turn of the Facebook photo social network. Here we show you how we can download our photos, videos and data from Instagram.

This new function was available for a few weeks for a small group of users. Once the tests carried out by the company have finished, this feature is now available to everyone, so we can finally download all the content that we have posted on our Instagram account. For now, the only way to download all the content that we have previously published on the social network is through the website, although according to the company, in the future we will also be able to download it from the application itself.

What data can we download from Instagram

Through this download process Instagram offers us the possibility to download the following content:

  • Photographs and videos that we have uploaded.
  • The stories we have created
  • The comments that we have written on our photographs in those of others.
  • Since they follow us.
  • Since we follow other users.
  • Our contacts.
  • I like them that we have clicked
  • The messages we have sent.
  • The publications we have made.
  • Information about our profile.
  • The searches we have carried out
  • Copy of the settings of our account on Instagram

How can we download our content from Instagram

How to download all your Instagram content

First of all we have to go to the Instagram website and we introduce our user account and password.

How to download all your Instagram content

Then we go to the upper right corner of the screen and click on our user to access our account data, our publications ... Click on the gear wheel to access the configuration of our account and click on Privacy and security.

How to download all your Instagram content

Next we go to the bottom of the screen where the section Data download. Click on Request download.

How to download all your Instagram content

In the next window, Instagram will inform us that we are going to request a copy of everything we have shared on Instagram and that it will send us a link to the file where all our photographs, comments, information from our profile and more will be found. Depending on our account activity, the process can take up to 48 hours to create. Below is the email address that we have associated with the account. We just have to click Next.

How to download all your Instagram content

In the next step, Instagram it will ask us again for the password of our account to make sure we own the account. Once we have entered our password, Instagram will show us a message informing us that a file has started to be created with all the content that we have shared on the social network, a file that we can access through the link that we will receive in our email account associated with the account.

How to download all your Instagram content

Once the file has been created, we will receive an email with the corresponding link. When clicking on Download data, the Instagram web page will open again, where, once again, we must enter our password to confirm that we are the rightful owners of the account.

How to download all your Instagram content

Next, the Privacy and security section of Instagram will open, entitled Your Instagram data, where we are informed that the file with all the information that we have published on this social network has already been created. This link will only be available for the next 4 days, after which they will be removed from the Instagram servers and we will have to request it again.

How to access downloaded content

How to download all your Instagram content

As with the data that we can download from all our activity on Facebook, Instagram creates a compressed file. When unzipping the file, we find a series of files with the .json extension, files that we can open with a supported browser or text editor to be able to access the information. Through these types of files we find: the messages we have sent, the photographs we liked, our profile, the comments, the contacts, the settings ...

How to download all your Instagram content

The way you offer us the information it's quite confusing and it is likely that many users will not be able to open this type of extension unless they have the Firefox browser installed on their computer or a plain text editor. Furthermore, the files, they are not formatted, so it is a real gibberish we can find the information we are looking for. Presumably, users of the platform will express their discomfort in this regard and will force Instagram to offer all the content that we have published in a more compatible format and that is also structured so that we can access by opening a single file, as with the Facebook data downloaded.

We also find a series of directories where photo graphic material is found, be it photographs, videos or stories. The quality of both the photographs and the videos offers us a lower resolution than the image that is actually uploaded to the platform, and that makes the images and videos lose a lot of quality compared to the videos and photographs that we uploaded at the time, But at least it is the only option we have at our disposal to recover a material that we may have lost over time or that we do not know where we have stored it.


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