Downloading An Image From Instagram Using Chrome’s Developer Console

  1. Click on the image or photo so that you are viewing just that photo in the browser.
  2. Right-click on the photo and select the “Inspect” option.
  3. At the top of the developer tools interface, click on the “Sources” tab.
  4. In the “Page” area of the “Sources” tab will be a list of domains Instagram is using to fetch data. One of those will be of the form:
    scontent-[xxxxx].cdninstagram.com
  5. Expand that domain. That will contain links to several different sizes of the image to be download.
  6. Right-click on the relevant link and click on the “Open in new tab” option.
  7. Right-click the image in the new tab and save to your local drive

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