How to grab images off Instagram

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CommentaryRequest

1. open the link to the Instagram post in a new tab (for example, https://www.instagram.com/p/DCdv-24Tsr9/). This is important, because uploading from the pop-up window in the listing will sometimes result in a sample image.
2. right-click on the image, click 'Copy Image Link' (or whatever it's called in your browser)
3. paste the link you copied in the upload page
4. change source to the link of the Instagram post
5. manually copy commentary in the appropriate fields

I believe it's also possible to download off Instagram using gallery-dl, but I haven't been able to configure it properly for that.

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user 1432016

CommentaryRequest said:

1. open the link to the Instagram post in a new tab (for example, https://www.instagram.com/p/DCdv-24Tsr9/). This is important, because uploading from the pop-up window in the listing will sometimes result in a sample image.
2. right-click on the image, click 'Copy Image Link' (or whatever it's called in your browser)
3. paste the link you copied in the upload page
4. change source to the link of the Instagram post
5. manually copy commentary in the appropriate fields

I believe it's also possible to download off Instagram using gallery-dl, but I haven't been able to configure it properly for that.

This is what I see, no copy option (Take screenshot isn't it, it's literally taking a picture of the image lol)
EDIT: though I think that larger image pluggin there got it for me thankfully.

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CommentaryRequest

Whoops, forgot I was using a custom userstyle to disable the invisible div that prevents right-clicking the image.

Another way to get the image URL is to right-click it, click 'Inspect', then find <div class="_aagv">, expand it, and there should be a URL to the image that you can copy and continue the process.

Or you can permanently disable it by using a userstyle manager (such as Stylus) and adding the following stylesheet, which I used when I uploaded a lot of images from there:

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/* ==UserStyle==
@name           instagram.com
@namespace      github.com/openstyles/stylus
@version        1.0.0
@description    A new userstyle
@author         Me
==/UserStyle== */

@-moz-document domain("instagram.com") {
    ._aagw {
        display:none;
    }
}
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user 1432016

CommentaryRequest said:

Whoops, forgot I was using a custom userstyle to disable the invisible div that prevents right-clicking the image.

Another way to get the image URL is to right-click it, click 'Inspect', then find <div class="_aagv">, expand it, and there should be a URL to the image that you can copy and continue the process.

Or you can permanently disable it by using a userstyle manager (such as Stylus) and adding the following stylesheet, which I used when I uploaded a lot of images from there:

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/* ==UserStyle==
@name           instagram.com
@namespace      github.com/openstyles/stylus
@version        1.0.0
@description    A new userstyle
@author         Me
==/UserStyle== */

@-moz-document domain("instagram.com") {
    ._aagw {
        display:none;
    }
}

That worked TY, now to just wait for my cap to open and I'll post it. turns out someone beat me to the punch lol.

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