Download Instagram profile picture in Python

Hello friends, in this tutorial I will tell you how you can download Instagram profile pictures using Python.

Download Instagram profile picture in Python

For this task, I have used the instaloader package, which is a third-party module built for Python. First, open your command prompt in Windows or Terminal for macOS/ Linux and execute the following command.

Install dependency

pip install instaloader

Import instaloader

Once installed, import it to your code to enable its usage.

import instaloader

Download profile picture

I have created an object for the Instaloader() class and stored it in a temporary variable, insta_obj. Now I have declared a string variable profile_nameand assigned it a value. Here I have assigned it a value of amitabhbachan__1942, you can assign any value as per your wish.

Code : 

insta_obj = instaloader.Instaloader()
profile_name = "amitabhbachan__1942"
insta_obj.download_profile(profile_name, profile_pic_only=True)

I have then used the download_profile() function. This function takes the profile name as well as some other attributes, like download_stories_only, download_tagged, post_filter, etc as input. In my case, I want to download only the profile picture so I have assigned the attribute profile_pic_only as True and provided the profile_name as arguments.

Output:

Now you can successfully download anyone’s Instagram profile picture in Python.