Download Instagram profile pic using Python

Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Python provides powerful tools for web scraping of Instagram.

Modules required and Installation:

requests:

pip install requests

concept –
For a given user profile, open view-source and find “profile_pic_url_hd” . To find press ctrl+f and type “profile_pic_url_hd” the link with it is our data or profile pic. 
The link will look like : 

https://scontent-bom1-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/d2df9b2d162969e87200984ee763cc27/5DC590F2/t51.2885-19/s320x320/61851740_845288152518430_7068999703693623296_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-bom1-1.cdninstagram.com

Below is the stepwise implementation of the project:

Step 1: import all dependence 

Python3

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
import json
import random
import os.path

Step 2: Ask for username and send a response to Instagram. 

Python3

insta_url='https://www.instagram.com'
inta_username= input('enter username of instagram : ')

response = requests.get(f"{insta_url}/{inta_username}/")

Step 3: if the response is ok, find profile photo link  

(Note: replace ‘\\u0026’ with ‘&’ in the string_url to remove bad URL timestamp or bad URL hash error)

Python3

if response.ok:
    html=response.text

    bs_html=bs(html, features="lxml")
    bs_html=bs_html.text
    index=bs_html.find('profile_pic_url_hd')+21

    remaining_text=bs_html[index:]
    remaining_text_index=remaining_text.find('requested_by_viewer')-3
    string_url=remaining_text[:remaining_text_index].replace("\\u0026","&")

    print(string_url, "\n \n downloading..........")

Step 4: Now, create a loop and download photo. 

Python3

while True:
    filename='pic'+str(random.randint(1, 100000))+'.jpg'
    file_exists = os.path.isfile(filename)

    if not file_exists:
        with open(filename, 'wb+') as handle:
            response = requests.get(string_url, stream=True)
            if not response.ok:
                print(response)
            for block in response.iter_content(1024):
                if not block:
                    break
                handle.write(block)
    else:
        continue
    break
print("\n                downloading completed ..............")

Output: 

Other Method : 
We can download profile pic of any Instagram account using instaloader module by just giving Instagram handle of the user.

First we need to install instaloader module :

pip install instaloader 

Example:

Python3

import instaloader

ig = instaloader.Instaloader()
dp = input("Enter Insta username : ")

ig.download_profile(dp , profile_pic_only=True)

Output :  Profile pic will be downloaded in  the same directory when we enter the input user id.