Backupstagram

Tool for backing up your Instagram account including photos, videos, descriptions, dates, likes, and comment counts.

Tested on Mac OS X, should work on Mac/Win/Lin ( be sure to submit an issue if you find compatibility problems!)

Prerequisites

• Node.js

  • Install Node.js

• Git (optional)

  • https://git-scm.com/

Installation

• In your terminal clone this github repo git clone [email protected]:AlexBezuska/Backupstagram.git (git required)

  or Download the zip of the project Backupstagram Zip (git not required)

• Install dependencies

  • In your terminal, inside the folder for this project run npm install, this will download all the projects required packages from NPM (Node Package Manager)

How to use

• Duplicate config-sample.json and name it config.json

• add your Instagram username to config.json and save it.

• Commands (run in your terminal while inside the root of the backupstagram directory)

  • npm start - Saves all of your Instagram posts to a new directory inside of the backupsFolderspecified inconfig.json`
  • Media such as photos and videos is stored in a folder named media.
  • A file named metadata.json is created with all the dates, descriptions, like counts, comment counts, and links to the media both locally and on Instagram.

Feature requests

• Fix the dependency on my weird fork of the 'instagram-screen-scrape' with the carousel fix in it
• Change the comments in metadata to be an array of comments, commenter names, and if possible dates
• Update the date to save timestamp as well as year/month/day
• Add a handlebars template to view all of your media on a webpage in the browser

Contributing

If you are interested in participating in this project, please feel free to send a bug or feature request by submitting an issue, or submit a PR for me to review.

Versioning

Backupstagram project uses SemVer for versioning.

Authors

• Alex Bezuska - Initial work

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.TXT file for details