docker-instaloader

Docker image with instaloader in it. See instaloader/instaloader for more info.

Some of this was inspired by shyd/docker-instagram-scraper, another good option for Instagram archiving.

Instaloader versions

I do my best to keep this updated whenever there is a release of Instaloader. Going forward, I plan to create a new tag for each Instaloader release version.

didc/docker-instaloader:latest -- latest official release version

didc/docker-instaloader:a.b.c -- version a.b.c. For example, alpha v4.3a1 can be pulled via: docker pull didc/docker-instaloader:4.3a1

Full list of available tags

Usage

For full Instaloader usage, refer to their great documentation here.

One of the goals of this docker image is to allow you to pass a list of args and targets to Instaloader.

Create a file with a list of arguments to be passed on to Instaloader -- this can be named anything you want locally, but should be passed to the container as il_args.txt. At a minimum, I recommend using the --login=my_username and --sessionfile arguments. For example, my file currently contains the following:

--login=my_username 
--sessionfile=instaloader.sessionfile 
--geotags
--fast-update

Create a file with a list of targets to be downloaded -- again, this can be named anything you want locally, but should be passed to the container as il_targets.txt. Per Instaloader's documentation: a "target is a profile, a "#hashtag", @profile (all profiles that profile is following), or if logged in :feed (pictures from your feed), :stories (stories of your followees) or :saved (collection of posts marked as saved)". The targets should be separated by newlines or spaces.

user_1
user_2
#hashtag_1
[etc]

Then you can run a new container, passing those files to it:

docker run --name instaloader -it \
    -v $(pwd)\download:/download 
    -v $(pwd)\il_args.txt:/il_args.txt 
    -v $(pwd)\il_targets.txt:/il_targets.txt 
    didc/docker-instaloader

By default, media will be downloaded to ./download/[target]. The folder/file structure can be modified via Instaloader arguments using --dirname-pattern or --filename-pattern.

Disclaimer

This docker image is in no way affiliated with, authorized, maintained or endorsed by Instaloader or by Instagram or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. This is an independent and unofficial project. Use at your own risk.

There's a decent chance it doesn't enable you to use all Instaloader functionality, though I've done my best.