✨Instagram Post Downloader- Media (Image, Video) & Post Scraper

--- # 📸 Instagram Post Downloader - Media (Image, Video) & Post Scraper 🎬📥 ## 📥 Overview Need to download high-quality images, videos, and metadata from any public Instagram post in seconds? Your search ends here! This powerful Instagram Post Downloader & Scraper meticulously extracts every piece of media from single or multiple posts. It delivers direct download links, stores files securely in Apify's Key-Value Store, and provides an unparalleled depth of technical and contextual metadata—all in one clean JSON package. 🎯 Perfect for archivists, marketers, researchers, and developers who need reliable, structured data from Instagram. > 🚀 Complete Media Grab: Downloads every image and video from single or carousel posts. > 🔍 Deep Metadata Extraction: Get post captions, engagement data, OG tags, and even technical EXIF-like data for media. > 🛠️ Advanced Toggles: Control storage and metadata detail with simple switches. > 📊 Structured for Developers: Clean, predictable JSON output ready for integration into any application. --- ## 🎥 Key Features ### 🌟 Multi-Media Support ✅ Download all images and videos from any public Instagram post. ✅ Handle single images, videos, and carousel posts with multiple items seamlessly. ✅ Provides direct URLs and Apify-stored links for reliable, long-term access. ### 🔍 Comprehensive Metadata ✅ Post Context: Caption, author, timestamp, likes, comments, and all Open Graph tags. ✅ Image Technical Data: Codec, dimensions, color profile, file size, and more (via FFprobe). ✅ Video Technical Data: Full stream analysis including codec, bitrate, duration, framerate, and audio channels (via FFprobe). ### 🛠️ Advanced Configuration ✅ Key-Value Store Toggle: Choose between direct links or secure, hosted Apify links. ✅ Additional Metadata Toggles: Granular control over extracting deep image and video metadata. ✅ Bulk Processing: Input multiple post URLs to scrape in a single, efficient run. ### ⚙️ Robust Architecture ✅ Built on the powerful Apify SDK for scalability and reliability. ✅ Pre-configured Dataset views for easy visualization of results. ✅ Handles Instagram's dynamic content loading with advanced web scraping techniques. --- ## ⚙️ Input Configuration Configure your scrape with a simple JSON object. Here’s the schema: json { "post_urls": [ { "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DM-qZyuxRpf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link", "method": "GET" } ], "use_key_value_store": true, "additional_metadata": true, "additional_video_metadata": true } ### 📋 Input Fields Table | Field | Emoji | Type | Description | Default | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | post_urls | 📮 | Array[Object] | Required. A list of objects containing Instagram post URLs. | - | | url | 🔗 | String | The full URL of a public Instagram post. | - | | use_key_value_store | 🗂️ | Boolean | If true, media is uploaded to Apify storage for persistent links. If false, direct (but potentially volatile) URLs are provided. | true | | additional_metadata | 🖼️ | Boolean | If true, fetches detailed technical metadata (dimensions, codec, etc.) for each image. | true | | additional_video_metadata | 🎬 | Boolean | If true, fetches detailed technical metadata (bitrate, duration, streams, etc.) for each video. Requires use_key_value_store to be true. | true | --- ## 📤 Output Example: When [key_value_store, additional_metadata, additional_video_metadata] Turn ON The actor returns a rich, structured array of objects for each processed post. json [ { "original_url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DM-qZyuxRpf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link", "caption": "NBA on Instagram: \"A Statue of Liberty slam from Victor Wembanyama through the lens of @natlyphoto 👽🗽\n\nIs this your pick for Photo of the Year? Use your NBA ID to vote for Wemby’s picture-perfect dunk, now on the NBA App!\"", "author_username": "natlyphoto", "feedback": "Congrats, media found.", "media": { "total_found": 2, "valid_urls": 2, "urls": [ { "http_status": 200, "content_type": "image/jpeg", "is_valid": true, "image_download_link_1": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/Ffkeqbi6sJJbhv7hv/records/ig_4084368873353170362.jpg?token=apify_actor_run_api_x6rwgxfPWuU29HaE9WCuceaGJQG4z3084I9u" }, { "http_status": 200, "content_type": "image/jpeg", "is_valid": true, "image_download_link_2": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/Ffkeqbi6sJJbhv7hv/records/ig_-4483034192571898270.jpg?token=apify_actor_run_api_x6rwgxfPWuU29HaE9WCuceaGJQG4z3084I9u" } ] }, "image_metadata": [ { "image_download_link_1": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/Ffkeqbi6sJJbhv7hv/records/ig_4084368873353170362.jpg?token=apify_actor_run_api_x6rwgxfPWuU29HaE9WCuceaGJQG4z3084I9u", "metadata_image_1": { "streams": [ { "index": 0, "codec_name": "mjpeg", "codec_long_name": "Motion JPEG", "profile": "Progressive", "codec_type": "video", "codec_tag_string": "[0][0][0][0]", "codec_tag": "0x0000", "width": 1080, "height": 1350, "coded_width": 1080, "coded_height": 1350, "closed_captions": 0, "film_grain": 0, "has_b_frames": 0, "sample_aspect_ratio": "1:1", "display_aspect_ratio": "4:5", "pix_fmt": "yuvj420p", "level": -99, "color_range": "pc", "color_space": "bt470bg", "chroma_location": "center", "refs": 1, "r_frame_rate": "25/1", "avg_frame_rate": "25/1", "time_base": "1/25", "start_pts": 0, "start_time": "0.000000", "duration_ts": 1, "duration": "0.040000", "bits_per_raw_sample": "8", "disposition": { "default": 0, "dub": 0, "original": 0, "comment": 0, "lyrics": 0, "karaoke": 0, "forced": 0, "hearing_impaired": 0, "visual_impaired": 0, "clean_effects": 0, "attached_pic": 0, "timed_thumbnails": 0, "captions": 0, "descriptions": 0, "metadata": 0, "dependent": 0, "still_image": 0 } } ], "format": { "filename": "/tmp/tmptvknics9.jpg", "nb_streams": 1, "nb_programs": 0, "format_name": "image2", "format_long_name": "image2 sequence", "start_time": "0.000000", "duration": "0.040000", "size": "269504", "bit_rate": "53900800", "probe_score": 50 } } }, { "image_download_link_2": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/Ffkeqbi6sJJbhv7hv/records/ig_-4483034192571898270.jpg?token=apify_actor_run_api_x6rwgxfPWuU29HaE9WCuceaGJQG4z3084I9u", "metadata_image_2": { "streams": [ { "index": 0, "codec_name": "mjpeg", "codec_long_name": "Motion JPEG", "profile": "Progressive", "codec_type": "video", "codec_tag_string": "[0][0][0][0]", "codec_tag": "0x0000", "width": 720, "height": 900, "coded_width": 720, "coded_height": 900, "closed_captions": 0, "film_grain": 0, "has_b_frames": 0, "sample_aspect_ratio": "1:1", "display_aspect_ratio": "4:5", "pix_fmt": "yuvj420p", "level": -99, "color_range": "pc", "color_space": "bt470bg", "chroma_location": "center", "refs": 1, "r_frame_rate": "25/1", "avg_frame_rate": "25/1", "time_base": "1/25", "start_pts": 0, "start_time": "0.000000", "duration_ts": 1, "duration": "0.040000", "bits_per_raw_sample": "8", "disposition": { "default": 0, "dub": 0, "original": 0, "comment": 0, "lyrics": 0, "karaoke": 0, "forced": 0, "hearing_impaired": 0, "visual_impaired": 0, "clean_effects": 0, "attached_pic": 0, "timed_thumbnails": 0, "captions": 0, "descriptions": 0, "metadata": 0, "dependent": 0, "still_image": 0 } } ], "format": { "filename": "/tmp/tmp89ppx3ld.jpg", "nb_streams": 1, "nb_programs": 0, "format_name": "image2", "format_long_name": "image2 sequence", "start_time": "0.000000", "duration": "0.040000", "size": "161228", "bit_rate": "32245600", "probe_score": 50 } } } ], "Post_Metadata": { "caption": "NBA on Instagram: \"A Statue of Liberty slam from Victor Wembanyama through the lens of @natlyphoto 👽🗽\n\nIs this your pick for Photo of the Year? Use your NBA ID to vote for Wemby’s picture-perfect dunk, now on the NBA App!\"", "owner_user_id": "20824486", "image_url": "https://scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/528648978_......", "shortcode": "DM-qZyuxRpf", "hashtags": [], "author_username": "natlyphoto", "bingbot": "noarchive", "robots": "noarchive, noimageindex", "apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style": "default", "mobile-web-app-capable": "yes", "viewport": "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=2, viewport-fit=cover", "theme-color": "#ffffff", "og:type": "article", "medium": "image", "twitter:card": "summary_large_image", "twitter:site": "@instagram", "twitter:maxage": "86400", "twitter:image": "https://scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/528648978.....", "twitter:title": "NBA (@nba) • Instagram photos and videos", "al:ios:app_name": "Instagram", "al:ios:app_store_id": "389801252", "al:ios:url": "instagram://media?id=3692575234902530655", "al:android:app_name": "Instagram", "al:android:package": "com.instagram.android", "al:android:url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DM-qZyuxRpf/", "fb:app_id": "124024574287414", "instapp:owner_user_id": "20824486", "description": "162K likes, 155 comments - nba on August 5, 2025: \"A Statue of Liberty slam from Victor Wembanyama through the lens of @natlyphoto 👽🗽\n\nIs this your pick for Photo of the Year? Use your NBA ID to vote for Wemby’s picture-perfect dunk, now on the NBA App!\". ", "og:site_name": "Instagram", "og:title": "NBA on Instagram: \"A Statue of Liberty slam from Victor Wembanyama through the lens of @natlyphoto 👽🗽\n\nIs this your pick for Photo of the Year? Use your NBA ID to vote for Wemby’s picture-perfect dunk, now on the NBA App!\"", "og:image": "https://scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/528648978_18574920988024487_1677596648401538578_n.jpg?stp=c216.0.648.648a_dst-jpg_e35_s640x640_tt6&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=IvJIBrxx_V0Q7kNvwFFq3b7&_nc_oc=AdlbMZEw6ml2FBDaht6GEmfLLtssaIJaQTwKfvzGV-CHzpG0r0ea-Gb7JQtMRMPU4YU&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com&_nc_gid=ghPJyxYGyZVD1R4rm28NUA&oh=00_AfWykzMt8I1H9DfFVxP5pc7oS62PgrXoRo8rySXic_z-nA&oe=68B76196", "og:url": "https://www.instagram.com/nba/p/DM-qZyuxRpf/", "og:description": "162K likes, 155 comments - nba on August 5, 2025: \"A Statue of Liberty slam from Victor Wembanyama through the lens of @natlyphoto 👽🗽\n\nIs this your pick for Photo of the Year? Use your NBA ID to vote for Wemby’s picture-perfect dunk, now on the NBA App!\". ", "application-title": "Instagram", "color-scheme": "light" }, "videos": [ { "url": "https://scontent-ord5-3.cdninstagram.com/o1/v/t16/f2/m84/AQM1K8jlvRf.......", "thumbnail_url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/Ffkeqbi6sJJbhv7hv/records/thumb_f8e86791-df21-426b-85b8-de3ce2c016f3.jpg?token=apify_actor_run_api_x6rwgxfPWuU29HaE9WCuceaGJQG4z3084I9u", "video_url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/Ffkeqbi6sJJbhv7hv/records/video_ca91e3f1-9c80-49f2-8745-a0287eb6763c.mp4?token=apify_actor_run_api_x6rwgxfPWuU29HaE9WCuceaGJQG4z3084I9u" } ], "video_metadata": { "video_1_metadata": { "video_url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/Ffkeqbi6sJJbhv7hv/records/video_ca91e3f1-9c80-49f2-8745-a0287eb6763c.mp4?token=apify_actor_run_api_x6rwgxfPWuU29HaE9WCuceaGJQG4z3084I9u", "streams": [ { "index": 0, "codec_name": "h264", "codec_long_name": "H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10", "profile": "High", "codec_type": "video", "codec_tag_string": "avc1", "codec_tag": "0x31637661", "width": 720, "height": 900, "coded_width": 720, "coded_height": 900, "closed_captions": 0, "film_grain": 0, "has_b_frames": 2, "pix_fmt": "yuv420p", "level": 31, "color_range": "tv", "color_space": "bt709", "color_transfer": "bt709", "color_primaries": "bt709", "chroma_location": "left", "field_order": "progressive", "refs": 1, "is_avc": "true", "nal_length_size": "4", "id": "0x1", "r_frame_rate": "30/1", "avg_frame_rate": "30/1", "time_base": "1/15360", "start_pts": 0, "start_time": "0.000000", "duration_ts": 363008, "duration": "23.633333", "bit_rate": "2024308", "bits_per_raw_sample": "8", "nb_frames": "709", "extradata_size": 50, "disposition": { "default": 1, "dub": 0, "original": 0, "comment": 0, "lyrics": 0, "karaoke": 0, "forced": 0, "hearing_impaired": 0, "visual_impaired": 0, "clean_effects": 0, "attached_pic": 0, "timed_thumbnails": 0, "captions": 0, "descriptions": 0, "metadata": 0, "dependent": 0, "still_image": 0 }, "tags": { "language": "und", "handler_name": "VideoHandler", "vendor_id": "[0][0][0][0]", "encoder": "AVC Coding" } }, { "index": 1, "codec_name": "aac", "codec_long_name": "AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)", "profile": "HE-AAC", "codec_type": "audio", "codec_tag_string": "mp4a", "codec_tag": "0x6134706d", "sample_fmt": "fltp", "sample_rate": "44100", "channels": 2, "channel_layout": "stereo", "bits_per_sample": 0, "id": "0x2", "r_frame_rate": "0/0", "avg_frame_rate": "0/0", "time_base": "1/44100", "start_pts": 0, "start_time": "0.000000", "duration_ts": 1045378, "duration": "23.704717", "bit_rate": "57558", "nb_frames": "511", "extradata_size": 4, "disposition": { "default": 1, "dub": 0, "original": 0, "comment": 0, "lyrics": 0, "karaoke": 0, "forced": 0, "hearing_impaired": 0, "visual_impaired": 0, "clean_effects": 0, "attached_pic": 0, "timed_thumbnails": 0, "captions": 0, "descriptions": 0, "metadata": 0, "dependent": 0, "still_image": 0 }, "tags": { "language": "und", "handler_name": "SoundHandler", "vendor_id": "[0][0][0][0]" } } ], "format": { "filename": "temp_36427a65-0948-4152-9a4b-e51f19c6c324.mp4", "nb_streams": 2, "nb_programs": 0, "format_name": "mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2", "format_long_name": "QuickTime / MOV", "start_time": "0.000000", "duration": "23.705000", "size": "6171340", "bit_rate": "2082713", "probe_score": 100, "tags": { "major_brand": "isom", "minor_version": "512", "compatible_brands": "isomiso2avc1mp41" } } } } } ] ### 🧾 Output Fields Summary * original_url (🔗): The input URL that was scraped. * caption (📝): The full text caption of the post. * author_username (👤): The Instagram handle of the post's author. * feedback (✅): A success/status message. * media (🖼️): An object containing all discovered images, their status, and download links. * image_metadata (🔬): If enabled. An array of detailed technical metadata for each image. * Post_Metadata (📄): A rich object containing dozens of metadata fields scraped from the post's HTML (Open Graph tags, viewport, description, etc.). * videos (🎥): An array of objects containing direct and Apify-stored links for videos and their thumbnails. * video_metadata (🎬): If enabled. A rich object containing full FFprobe data for the video and audio streams. --- ## 📊 Pre-Configured Dataset Views This actor comes with optimized dataset views for easy analysis: | View Name | Emoji | Purpose | Key Fields Shown | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | OVERVIEW | 📦 | Get a quick summary of all scraped posts and their media. | original_url, author_username, media, videos, feedback | | IMAGEMETADATA | 🕵️‍♂️ | Dive deep into the technical details of every downloaded image. | original_url, author_username, image_metadata, feedback | | VIDEOMETADATA | 🎬 | Analyze the technical specifications of all downloaded videos. | original_url, author_username, video_metadata, feedback | | POSTMETADATA | 📬 | Explore the contextual and engagement metadata for each post. | original_url, author_username, Post_Metadata | --- ## 🎯 Use Cases 👨‍💻 Digital Archivists & Researchers: Preserve social media history with full context and high-fidelity media. 📈 Social Media Marketers: Analyze competitors' post performance and content strategy at scale. 🤖 Developers & Data Scientists: Fuel apps, models, and dashboards with structured Instagram data via a clean API. 🎨 Content Creators: Responsibly gather inspiration and repurpose public content (within platform guidelines). 📊 Brand Monitoring Teams: Track mentions and content related to your brand from public posts. --- ## 🔒 Privacy & Ethics 🔐 Public Data Only: This actor is designed to only scrape data from public Instagram profiles and posts. It cannot access private content. 📜 Compliance: Users are responsible for complying with Instagram's Terms of Service and applicable data privacy laws (like GDPR and CCPA) when using this tool. 🚫 No Login Required: The tool does not require Instagram credentials, operating purely on publicly available information. --- ## 🔗 Related Actors (Recommended Tools) Explore our full suite of scraping tools for all your data needs: ### 📸 Instagram Scrapers & Downloader: * Instagram Reels Downloader * ⚡ Instagram Video Scraper - Lite 🔬 * Instagram Image Post Scraper & Image Post Downloader📥 * ✨ Instagram Post, Image Scraper & Image Post Downloader * Instagram Image Post Downloader 📸 ### 🎥 YouTube Scrapers: * YouTube Video Downloader - Download videos, shorts, and audio. * YouTube Video Transcript Scraper - Extract video subtitles and transcripts. ### 🎵 Spotify Scrapers: * Spotify Playlists Scraper - Scrape playlist data and tracklists. * Spotify Artist Scraper - Get artist metadata, albums, and top tracks. --- ## 📧 Need Customization? Require higher volume scraping, specific data points, or integration help? ✉️ Email scrapearchitect@gmail.com for tailored solutions and expert consultation! --- ## 🚀 Try It Now! Launch the Instagram Post Downloader - Media & Post Scraper and get clean, structured data from any public post in minutes! ⚠️ Pro Tip: If you don't get the desired results on the first run, rerun the actor after ~1 minute for 99% accurate results! 💯🔥 ---