instagram_media_downloader

Python script to download locally all the media from an instagram account

Steps:

1. You need a Business App on https://developers.facebook.com/
2. You need to add the Instagram API to your app.
3. Retrieve the USER_ID and ACCESS_TOKEN by linking a creator or business ig account to your app.
4. Store those variables into a .env file in the root of your project.
5. Create a virtual environment using venv python -m venv name_of_venv_folder
6. Install all the dependencies from the requirement.txt file pip install -r requirements.txt
7. Execute the script python -m instagram_media_downloader and wait till all the media are downloaded into the /instagram_media folder.