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!

solved: https://lemmy.ml/comment/10170544

  • @[email protected]
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    57 months ago

    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?

    • @[email protected]
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      57 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        67 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          57 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.

    • @xePBMg9
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      17 months ago

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

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          7 months ago

          Neat! * thumb up *