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.
link will look link :

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

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.

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

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

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

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 ..............") 

Complete code :

import requests 
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs 
import json 
import random 
import os.path 
  
insta_url ='https://www.instagram.com'
inta_username = input('enter username of instagram : ') 
  
response = requests.get(f"{insta_url}/{inta_username}/") 
  
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] 
  
    print(string_url, "\n \n downloading..........") 
  
  
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:

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