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Python 3 Instagram GraphQL API Example to Download Instagram Video Post From URL Using yt-dlp
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you a
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Python module which can download your
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Instagram videos directly inside your
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terminal so there is a package here just
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search for this package
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YTDL_P i think this is actually the
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package here so if you just search for
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this YT sorry
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YT_DLP so this is actually the package
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here
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so what you need to
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do simply execute this
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command to install this i have already
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installed it
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so
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now just create a simple app py
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file and first of all we just need to
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import this module so we simply say
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import yt
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we import this module and then we simply
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write the Instagram URL where the video
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is located
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so you can take any post here so we are
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taking this post we copy the URL and
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paste it so we provide this URL here and
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then we need to provide some options
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right here like this so here we
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specify this option
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and so we need to download the full
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video so we provide the path here
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so after that we simply need to call
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this with
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yt DLP and it contains this function
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YouTube
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dl and here we
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pass this options that we specify and uh
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as
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y dl and here it contains this function
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ydl dot download and then here we simply
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pass the URL that you
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specified that's all so this is the
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overall code required so if I run this
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script now so what will happen it will
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go to the URL and it will download that
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Instagram's video so we run the script
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here so you can see it is downloading
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it you can see 100% complete so now the
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video has been downloaded you can see
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that so internally it is using the
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Instagram graphql API it is
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communicating with that to download the
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video you can take any example here
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let's suppose I take a different video
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this video so you just need the URL and
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uh you need to paste the URL once again
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it will communicate with the Instagram
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graphql API and the nice thing about
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this module it's totally free you don't
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require any API key you can do it
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unlimited number of time and once again
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the video has been downloaded in a MP4
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format you can see that so with this
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module you can build out a web
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application where you allow user to
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submit the URL and then download the
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video automatically in the browser so
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it's a great Python module communicating
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with the GraphQL Instagram
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API and uh you just need the
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URL you can see simply paste the URL of
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the
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video and just run the script so you can
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see we can do it unlimited number of
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time
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so you can use this module to download
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Instagram videos so thank you very much
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