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With this article, we are opening a new section on our website dedicated to such a world-famous photo hosting service as Instagram. And let's start, perhaps, with a topic that often worries many users of this service - how to download photos from Instagram to a computer.
Briefly about Instagram policy
For those of our readers who are familiar with Instagram at the user level, it is no secret that this service is famous for a set of restrictions. This is especially felt when you want to work here using a computer. In this case, you can only subscribe to someone else’s feed, leave likes or comments and change some settings of your profile. Everything else is possible only from the Instagram mobile application, which is not always convenient, but quite logical, because the service was originally conceived and exists today as a mobile application, and not an Internet resource.
To do this, follow these instructions. The image will be displayed in enlarged form with the corresponding comments. Now right-click on the picture and select an option to open another window with the source text of the image. Use the mouse cursor on the tab to select “Modify” and click on it to select “Search”. A search bar appears at the bottom of the window. Avoid posting images to websites, social networks, or other platforms.
- Click on it with the left mouse button.
- Please note that copyright remains with the author.
- Duplication of foreign content may be held liable.
But even a mobile application does not always allow you to do what you want. For example, you cannot get at your disposal a graphic image located in someone’s tape. This is done on purpose, since the United States monitors copyright compliance very carefully. It is believed that if the author posted a photo, then it is intended for informational purposes only. You can admire her, leave comments, try to shoot the same, but you can’t take it for yourself - this violates the copyright of the photographer who took the picture, or the artist who created the graphic image.
However, if you want to avoid sharing, you can upload images through a bypass. You can find out how to do it here. Click on the “Resources” tab at the top. Right-click on the image and select “Open Link” on a new tab in the context menu.
Select a location and click Save. Click on the “Media” tab. Now scroll down and select the image you want. Now select any location and confirm with "Save". This application is very popular among users all over the world. On this social platform, users like to watch and share photos and photos.
You can be sure that most ordinary Americans - Instagram users will never even think of looking for some way to get a photo. If prohibited, then this should not be and is not necessary. However, the mentality of Russian people is somewhat differently constructed. He allowed us to win wars at all times only thanks to excellent strategy and innovative thinking.
Unable to save photos in the application. 
But the size of the saved image changes after the screen. Therefore, image quality is not so good, and you can try a different method. You can compare these applications and choose one to download. You do not need to worry about application security. Select the photos and videos you want to download and save them to your phone. Click the download button and all photos, images and videos will be uploaded and saved. 
Click the photos on the right and select “Show Source Page”.
Let's try and today we will consider all the options known today, with which you can download photos from Instagram to your computer. The resulting images are usually useful for designers, website owners, printers in their future work, or maybe just some young lady liked a high-quality photo of Justin Bieber and she had a desire to print Instagram photos and hang them in her bedroom.
Step 2: Then you will enter the code page. Step 3: Select the image links and click on them and select “Open Link”. Click on the photos on the right and you can find the option “Save Image As”. 
Then click the “Download Selected” or “Download All Messages” button. 
Download it and install it from the links. Step 2: Click “Photos” in the left column and confirm “Add” in the top menu bar in the main interface.
Technical principles of protecting graphics on Instagram
Of course, all the technical protections that Instagram set to protect graphic images from downloading do not withstand even the weakest criticism. This can only matter for those very ordinary users who take advantage of the features exclusively provided by the service interface and do not know the intricacies of workarounds. This is not bad, because not everyone should be an advanced user, and even more so, a programmer who opens up all the basics of the technical functioning of a system.
Here you can learn how to save photos without a phone. You can upload your photos using the “save original photos” option to your mobile phone. To do this, we have the appropriate instructions for each device. The application was not found in the store.
After clicking “Search” you will get all the pictures of the corresponding user. If you now click the image directly, it is displayed in the browser and can be saved by right-clicking on the hard drive. Therefore, it is practically impossible to find a direct link to an image or video file. Your access data is absolutely safe! Usually you cannot save an image, but you can share it.
However, in order to clarify a little how the methods of circumventing Instagram restrictions work, one should explain the general principles of the web industry. The reader, who is not interested in technical details, can safely skip this section and move on to the next, it will not affect the ability to receive download photos from Instagram to a computer.
How to save all photos from instagram?
This is an advantage of the application. There you can find it and now directly split. The beginning of the gallery. This is a little trickier. There they are displayed directly by the free service and are ready for storage. Clicking on it loads it in its original size, so you can save it.
- Now the address is on the clipboard.
- Click the Submit button.
- Now the desired image is displayed under the button.
So, somewhere on the distant Instagram servers, which are scattered geographically across many American states, a program called a web server is running. The tasks of this program include accepting connections from all computers in the world that are knocking at https://www.instagram.com. The web server runs smaller programs, or scripts, each of which performs its own set of tasks:
By clicking on the tilt icon, you can rotate the photo at different angles or flip it upside down. 
The tooltip on the drop icon displays an image with a blurred filter. 
Use the sun icon to control the brightness of the image. 
The highlight of the application are 19 image filters. Just drop something or try.
- Authenticates each user in accordance with their username and password.
- Runs it only in his profile.
- Shows the contents of the feed of the native profile.
- Allows you to find other people's profiles, subscribe to them, leave comments.
- To carry out other actions, which are expressed in the form of each function provided to us by Instagram. Including - prohibiting downloading photos to your computer.
All of the above in such a modest list is called one meaningful word "Instagram."
Darken the image or give a sepia effect. There are no restrictions for creativity. 
Finally, you can optically polish the image environment with the tip on the frame icon. Each filter has its own frame. Then click the gear in the upper left corner and select “Account Settings”. 
In the next window, click Create My Archive.
Before we see the contents of our or someone else’s tape on the screen of our monitor, the web server scripts form a certain program code that is sent to our Internet browser. If we try to look at this code, say in notepad, we will see a huge number of text lines, the meaning of which is clear only to the web programmer, and, of course, to the browser.
How to save Instagram photos to a computer without third-party services and applications
Then click Rebuild My Archive. 
In the next window, click "Confirm." 
Then click the link in the email. To download the archive, enter your password and click "Next". 
Click Download Archive. 
Click on your profile photo in the upper right of the screen, then click on “Account”.
Having received this code, the browser turns it (more correctly, interprets it) into the image that we see on the monitor screen when we go to the Instagram pages. However, it is on the same technology that the entire Internet works, not just Instagram.
It is especially worth emphasizing that not only textual program code is transmitted to the browser, and therefore to the user's computer, but also graphic images in their integral form, as it is.
In the next window, click "Download Data."
Then click "Download Data" again.
To create a complete archive of your data, click Create Archive.
Click "Choose a service." On the new page, select which data you want to download. Finally, click "Download."
To summarize, it turns out that our browser, in fact, downloads the entire contents of the page to the user's computer, including the photos themselves, and also indicates the exact location on the Instagram server. Therefore, we can only get them. Now we’ll look at various ways to download Instagram photos to a computer.
In the next step, click "Start Export". 
To do this, click "Upload Photos." 
Then click on the gear in the upper left corner of the screen, then click on “Settings”. 
After you received it, click on the link in the message. 
Now create a new folder on your hard drive.
Option 1. Obtaining direct links to the photo
To download any photo through a browser from a remote server, you need to know the direct link to the image. More precisely, the browser needs to know it. He knows her when he displays us a page from Instagram, however, service scripts prohibit direct download of the image with the right mouse button.
We open the photo we liked in the comment mode. Let it be from the profile of Justin Bieber, since we already mentioned him earlier:
Right-click anywhere on the page and select "View Page Code" or press the key combination Ctrl + U. We used the Google Chrome browser, however, all actions are similar to working in any modern browser, including a set of hot keys.
In a new tab, the text code of the Instagram page will open, just the one mentioned in the previous paragraph.
Somewhere in these wilds of program code is a direct link to Justin's photo, you need to find it. In order not to break our eyes about the mass of text, we will use the search by page code. To do this, with the code page open, press Ctrl + F and enter part of the search phrase “.jpg”.
As you can see, in the entire program code, the search found 54 text options containing “.jpg”. As a rule, the link we need will always be the first, because it is contained in the meta tags of the page. Searched text is highlighted in orange.
Then select the link with the mouse in the classical way, copy the combination Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Insert to the computer’s memory buffer via the right mouse menu, as you like, open a new browser tab, paste the contents of the buffer into the address field (Ctrl + V or Shift + Insert) and press the Enter key. In the tab, a photo from Instagram will open, which can be downloaded to the computer via the right mouse button.
Option 2. Getting a few direct links
The next option will be convenient for those of our readers who would like to download several photos from someone else’s profile tape on Instagram to a computer at once. To do this, you do not need to go to the page of each graphic image - it will be enough just to get into the feed. The following experiments will be carried out in the account of Selena Gomez, and as a browser we use Google Chrome. Our task is to get several direct links to photos from the Selena ribbon in one window at once.
Press the key combination Alt + Shift + C. The developer’s panel will open on the right, which will show us the technical and software part of the page already loaded onto the computer. After all, we remember that pages are first downloaded to the hard disk before opening.
We expand the development area a bit to make it more convenient to work with it.
In the developer's menu, select the "Resources" item.
A little to the left will open a vertical additional menu in which you need to expand the following items - “Frames - (Instagram.com/) - images”. A list of all the photos available in the feed will expand. You can navigate through them using the arrows on the numeric keypad or clicking the left mouse button. A preview of the photo, its resolution and a direct download link will be displayed to the right. How to download photos from Instagram to a computer in this case? Right-click on the link and select one of two options - “Open the link in a new tab” or “Copy the link to the memory buffer”. In what follows, we proceed similarly to the actions in the first paragraph.
Option 3. Using screenshots
This method is based on taking a copy of the image from the monitor screen. Probably not a secret for many that you can get a picture in the form of a file from what is currently happening on the screen. Such an image will be called a screenshot, or a screenshot, and programs that allow you to organize the process are called screenshots.
To get a screenshot, you can use the standard features of your computer:
- at the right time, press the PrintScreen key, which places the image in the memory buffer;
- open any graphic editor, for example, Paint;
- paste the image from the buffer into the editor (Ctrl + V);
- edit the picture by cutting off excess edges;
- save the image as a graphic file with the extension .jpg, for example.
This approach is considered rather cumbersome, because you need to perform a number of actions that can be difficult for the average user. However, on this basis, many additional programs have been created, both paid and absolutely free, which allow you to get a screenshot. As a rule, the higher the price, the more advanced features the program offers.
After some time of searching, an application was found that has all the capabilities of paid analogues, but distributed absolutely free and without restrictions. By the way, all the screenshots on this site were made using this particular program. Its name is "Monosnap for Windows."
Some features of Monosnap:
- Getting a screenshot of the entire screen or only part of it;
- Selecting the image area is possible up to a pixel;
- Before saving a picture, it is possible to select objects on which you need to focus the viewer's attention. For this, arrows, underscores, letter symbols and so on are used;
- Parts of the picture with personal information can be blurred;
- Saving the finished screenshot is possible not only on the local computer, but also on the program server, the place on which is issued without restrictions. Pictures can also be sent to their remote servers via FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and even the Amazon S3 server.
- After saving the screenshot on the Monosnap server, the program generates a short unique hyperlink, through which the image will be available for an indefinite period;
- A personal account is created on the program’s website, in which you can group images into folders and delete them.
In addition, Monosnap can record video from the screen with sound. This is very convenient for those who write video tutorials. The only drawback of this program is the lack of an option for a Linux system. But there is for the entire "apple" range of operating systems - iPad, iPhone and Mac OS.
Installing and configuring Monosnap for Windows is beyond the scope of this topic, but it is worth noting that there is nothing complicated there. After downloading and installing the distribution package of the program, you need to register on its website, and then enter the login and password in the program itself to get a place on its native servers. In the settings, it is advisable to make the short link simpler and choose the format of saving jpg of the highest quality.
So, how to download Instagram photos to your computer using Monosnap?
We open the page with the desired graphic image on Instagram and press the key combination Ctrl + Alt + 5, which provides a snapshot from the screen area in the Monosnap program. The mouse cursor turns into the center of the vertical and horizontal lines.
Holding down the left mouse button, you need to divert that area of \u200b\u200bthe screen from which you plan to take a picture. You should start from the highest left point of the future image. After the lower right point is reached, the mouse button can be released, the program will launch its shell, in which you can crop portions of the image or draw arrows, captions, if necessary. At the end of processing, in order to save the picture on the local computer, click the "Save"
Option 4. Using third-party services
Given the limitations of Instagram, services regularly appear on the network who want to make money on this. At the heart of the popularization of such projects is the organization of additional features for the user that the photo hosting system does not give him. The ability to download photos from other people's tapes is no exception.
The most popular service in this segment is the German resource Instaport, which allows you to download photos to your computer from Instagram, both in the form of separate images or several, for convenience, packed into a zip archive.
Perhaps this option will be convenient for those who need to simultaneously receive several photos. The functioning of the Instaport is based on the same algorithm that we described in the second paragraph, only in automatic mode. The script goes around each page, receives a direct link, downloads the image, puts them in a folder, which it then archives and sends to the customer.
Perhaps the instort deserves trust and respect, as well as other services that increase the capabilities of Instagram, but you need to remember that when using their services you will have to hand in your username and password from the instagram profile. That is, in fact, giving it to absolutely strangers who have nothing to do with Instagram. Therefore, for your own safety, especially if the profile is already sufficiently rocked, to get photos, and other additional services, it is worth registering a new account on Instagram with zero counters. If his loss occurs, then at least it will not be a pity.
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Method number 1: the most important
In this part of the article you will learn one of the easiest ways to download images from your favorite service. Of course, it often happens that we need to upload a photo from Instagram from our own profile again. Perhaps we lost the original or the image was made using the program itself. Dont be upset. Just open the “Settings” icon in your profile (remember that this only works for smartphones). At the very bottom of the list you will see “Original Photos”. Thanks to this button, you can save already edited or just taken photos to the phone quickly and without problems.
Method number 2: if you need to download a lot of files
With the help of the special Instaport service that was created for this popular social network, you will no longer think about how to save Instagram photos by mass upload. Just go to Instaport, go through the activation of your Instagram account and choose a save method. Photos can be downloaded in .zip format or on your Facebook profile. At the same time, you can upload not only your files, but also strangers.
Method number 3: download photos from other people's accounts to a personal computer
Of course, if you are thinking about how to save photos from Instagram to your PC from someone else’s account, then you will encounter a serious problem. The developers of the service made this type of photo upload almost impossible. Why almost? Because here you can find one way. Go to the home page of the social network and find the photo of the user by his name on Instagram. By choosing your favorite photo, which opens up to a fairly high resolution, you can take a regular screenshot with PrintScreen.
Method number 4: how else to download photos to your PC?
If you go to a special service called Instagrabbr, you can download files, knowing only It’s quite simple and affordable, so if you don’t know how to save photos from Instagram, then this method is best for you.
Method number 5: use the secret code
If you right-click on any open photo, an action menu will appear. At the bottom, select "View item code", which contains a link to the photo. To make sure that you did everything correctly, hover over it with your cursor. A thumbnail of the image you need should appear. By clicking on the link, you will open the photo. Under it you will find the characteristics. Right-click on the photo and select "Copy Image URL" from the menu.
Method number 6: if you need to download photos to iOS devices
In such devices, on Instagram there is always a special menu under the photo, the button of which is three dots. In this menu you can find the option "Copy URL". Having inserted the link in the browser, you can download the image.
