# althonos/InstaLooter

Another API-less Instagram pictures and videos downloader. (defunct)

Repository: https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/instalooter
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: instagram, instagram-scraper, downloader, python, cross-platform
Last push: 2023-01-06T04:04:41+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3572, "days_push": 1335, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2098, forks 257 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:13.419335+00:00)

## What it is
InstaLooter is a Python CLI tool that downloads pictures and videos from Instagram profiles without using the official API. It is a re-implementation of the deprecated InstaRaider project and is now defunct.

## Use cases
- download all photos from an instagram profile
- scrape instagram videos without api access
- bulk download instagram media from the command line
- archive a user's instagram posts
- python library to fetch instagram pictures

## When to choose
- you need a scriptable, API-less Instagram downloader and accept it may no longer work reliably

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained tool that works with current Instagram
- you want official API compliance
- you need a GUI

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-scraping, cli
- domain: crawlers, social-media
- platform: python, cross-platform, cli
- tags: instagram, downloader, api-less, defunct, command-line

## Member repositories
- althonos/InstaLooter (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:13.419335+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:54:28.773102+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:13.419335+00:00, sha 5fe86411441b)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/instalooter/json (fetched 2026-08-29T10:34:50.021010+00:00, sha 276d01d3b457)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.