Download only instagram videos with instaloader

Question

This code is working for downloading all photos and videos

from instaloader import Instaloader, Profile

L = Instaloader()
PROFILE = "username"
profile = Profile.from_username(L.context, PROFILE)

posts_sorted_by_likes = sorted(profile.get_posts(), key=lambda post: post.likes,reverse=True)

for post in posts_sorted_by_likes:
L.download_post(post, PROFILE)

Now i want to download only videos, But I can't. How can I filter this code for only videos?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 19 '22 at 06:17

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Post has an is_video property

for post in posts_sorted_by_likes:
    if post.is_video:
        L.download_post(post, PROFILE)

answered Feb 19 '22 at 06:17

Abhinav Mathur

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It's great and useful, One little more question how about only photos? – Rasedul Islam Feb 19 '22 at 06:33
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@RasedulIslam from what I can see, if the post isn’t a video, it will be a photo. So you can just check `if not post.is_video` – Abhinav Mathur Feb 19 '22 at 07:21
It's not working, after giving `if not post.is_video` video is also downloading, Is there any other way i can download only photos? – Rasedul Islam Feb 22 '22 at 03:58
You could try using `video_url`, which should be `None` for photos. For sidecar posts, you'll probably have to check that iteratively. – Abhinav Mathur Feb 22 '22 at 05:27

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 29 '22 at 15:57

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Sometimes the 'is_video' is not enough, so you can just delete the ones that don't have the .mp4 extension:

for file in os.listdir(path):
        if not file.endswith(".mp4"):
            os.remove(path + file)

answered Mar 29 '22 at 15:57

Tomas1906

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That's great it's working. I want to know how can I download only images without videos? – Rasedul Islam Mar 29 '22 at 19:03
Maybe try: if not post.is_video: download . But again, I'm not sure it worked perfectly. You can always download everything and the clean it with the function above, but instead of 'endswith(".mp4") you use 'endswith(".jpg") – Tomas1906 Mar 31 '22 at 00:57

Download only instagram videos with instaloader

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