PYTHON

python instagram downloader

#python script to download instagram image

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
from selenium import webdriver
import time

''' ask user to input the instagram post url '''
link = input("Enter Instagram Image URL: ")

''' 
create a webdriver chrome object by passing the path of "chromedriver.exe" file.(do not include .exe in the path).
'''
driver = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver')

''' Open the instagram post on your chrome browser'''
driver.get(link)

''' Fetch the source file of the html page using BeautifulSoup'''
soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, 'lxml')

''' Extract the url of the image from the source code''' 
img = soup.find('img', class_='FFVAD')
img_url = img['src']


'''Download the image via the url using the requests library'''
r = requests.get(img_url)

with open("instagram"+str(time.time())+".png",'wb') as f: 
    f.write(r.content)

print('success')