Download all media from a users instagram or twitter account.
You might not know this.. but you can easily download all media from a users instagram or twitter account. All you need is gallery-dl & some free space on your hard drive….
1. Begin by installing gallery-dl..
I’m currently running archlinux so I used the following command.
yay -S gallery-dl-bin
You can check the repos of your distro to see if it’s available & if not then you can install it using pip
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python3 -m pip install -U gallery-dl
2. Start downloading..
Now that gallery-dl is installed all that is left to do is to start downloading. Simply open up a terminal & type gallery-dl url
followed by your url to either a twitter or instagram user.
gallery-dl https://twitter.com/yourawesomeusername/
4. Finished downloading..
While gallery-dl is busy downloading you’ll see the files being downloaded listed in the terminal window. Whenever downloading has finished you can close the terminal window & open up your file manager to view the downloaded media.
Gallery-dl creates it’s own folder structure for each website. So inside the gallery-dl folder you’ll find separate folders for instagram, twitter & any other supported websites. Inside each of those folders you’ll find folders relating to each user that you’ve downloaded from.