[Feature request] Instagram - download highest resolution images

[Fukitsu]

Possibility to download the highest resolution images available like instaloader does. It requires login but can download images in 1440x1440 pixels

[Hrxn]

gallery-dl also supports login for Instagram, did you try that?

[iamleot]

Hello @Fukitsu,
can you please share a possible URL to reproduce that, i.e. where gallery-dl downloads an image that is not the highest resolution one?

gallery-dl just pick up the one in display_url that IME is the highest resolution one, if that's not the case I'm happy to possibly look at it in order to prefers better resolution ones.

[Fukitsu]

@Hrxn Yes, I'm logged in with both gallery-dl and instaloader and instaloader downloads a higher resolution picture.
@iamleot Not sure how to look for the higher resolution one but here is an example though the URL is expired
instaloader/instaloader#630 (comment)

[iamleot]

Fukitsu writes:

@iamleot Not sure how to look for the higher resolution one but here is an example though the URL is expired instaloader/instaloader#630 (comment)

Just an Instagram URL of a post of the form: https://www.instagram.com/p/... (In the issue you have shared I couldn't find anything like that.)

[iamleot]

Leonardo Taccari writes:

Fukitsu writes: > @iamleot Not sure how to look for the higher resolution one but here is an example though the URL is expired > instaloader/instaloader#630 (comment) Just an Instagram URL of a post of the form: https://www.instagram.com/p/... (In the issue you have shared I couldn't find anything like that.)

There wasn't any URL of such form but it was actually passed to instaloader the following one: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAcwc-NDSWU/ At least using curl (and not being logged in, without any cookies) to fetch the URL and inspecting the sharedData only 1080x720 images are available. (I have not investigated further ATM if there are possible ways to requests higher resolution images logger or not logged)

[mikf]

It seems like it possible to get higher resolution images by pretending to be the Instagram iPhone app and using a special API endpoint: instaloader/instaloader#662

[nvmnghia]

Is porting the code from instaloader to this repo welcomed?

[mikf]

@nvmnghia sure, as long as the license permits it. Let me know if you need any help.

[phanirithvij]

It looks like this has been implemented? #2666 (comment)

[Fukitsu]

Forgot to close it, my bad

[phanirithvij]

Sorry about that, please reopen this, it is not implemented exactly as in instaloader/instaloader#662 but differently.