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This thread discusses better tools.
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Ripping an Instagram profile without login
The publicly viewable content in Instagram can be archived using Instalooter - a Python program.
https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter
The usage manual is found at https://instalooter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html
To rip an archive for a user called "foo-bar":
python -m instalooter user foo-bar -v -d
-v option rips videos as well as images
-d option rips JSON metadata containing comments found on the Instagram posts
A helpful one-liner to use with the JSON files saved - Searching the JSON metadata for keywords of interest:
grep shortcode grep -li pizza *.json|sed 's/^."shortcode":\s"(.)".*/http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/\1/' -
This will run a case-insensitive search for "pizza" and return all URLs in the Instagram profile that contain that term in the comments.