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 
 

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

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)
 

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

Complete code :
 

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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].replace("\\u0026", "&")

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