# Install instalooter with Homebrew Download any picture or video associated from an Instagram profile. Version 2.4.4 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-21. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:instalooter ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install instalooter ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:instalooter - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 2.4.4 - **Source summary:** Download any picture or video associated from an Instagram profile - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** GPL-3.0-or-later - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-05-21T12:42:39Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00 ## Executables - instalooter (cli) - instalooter (alias) ## Dependencies - certifi - python@3.14 ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on all ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 2.4.4 - Package-manager updated: 2026-05-21 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/althonos/instalooter - info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Project history and usage InstaLooter is a Python command-line downloader for Instagram pictures and videos from profiles, hashtags, posts, and batch files. Its own GitHub metadata describes it as API-less and defunct, which makes it a useful historical companion to better-maintained Instagram archiving tools. ### Project history The GitHub repository and PyPI package appeared in 2016. The README says InstaLooter can download pictures or videos associated with an Instagram profile without API access and describes it as a reimplementation of the deprecated InstaRaider project. The 1.0.0 line was rewritten from scratch and intentionally risked breaking script compatibility while trying to keep the CLI familiar. The changelog records a semantic-versioned release stream through the 2.x series, including fixes for Instagram-side API and login changes. ### Adoption history InstaLooter was distributed through PyPI and packaged by Homebrew. The official Read the Docs build, README badges, and PyPI metadata show a conventional Python CLI distribution path with documentation, changelog, source repository, and package releases. The Homebrew formula packages the PyPI source archive for version 2.4.4, while PyPI records dozens of releases beginning in 2016. That adoption is modest but real for a single-purpose scraper. ### How it is used The documented command-line interface includes user, hashtag, post, and batch subcommands. Options cover credentials, output directories, number of files, parallel jobs, filename templates, videos, metadata dumps, time limits, and authenticated downloads. The docs describe logging in with username/password or a login subcommand, then storing a session cookie in a cache-specific folder. That credential behavior is central to how such tools handled private profiles and authenticated media access. ### Why package nerds care InstaLooter is historically interesting because it shows the fragile lifecycle of API-less social-media downloaders: quick adoption, many small fixes, rewrites after web changes, and eventual defunct status as upstream platform behavior moves. For package maintainers, it is a cautionary package: the source archive, docs, and formula remain useful records, but the project's own description warns that its web-scraping assumptions aged out. ### Timeline - 2016: GitHub repository created and 0.1.0 uploaded to PyPI. - 2018: v1.0.0 released after a from-scratch rewrite. - 2018: v2.0.0 addressed Instagram API changes around April 2018. - 2020: v2.4.4 documented in the changelog and uploaded to PyPI. - 2023: GitHub repository metadata describes the project as defunct. ### Related projects - InstaLooter is related to InstaRaider, Instaloader, PyPI-distributed scraping CLIs, Read the Docs documentation, Homebrew Python formulas, and Instagram media archival scripts. ### Sources - - - - - ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for instalooter. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL. ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** instalooter - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 18 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Related links - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Language runtime packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [python@3.14](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [instaloader](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/instaloader/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, downloader, downloaders, instagram, media. - [gallery-dl](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gallery-dl/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, downloader, downloaders, media, python. - [gamdl](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gamdl/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, downloader, downloaders, media, python. - [you-get](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/you-get/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, downloader, downloaders, media, python. - [yt-dlp](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/yt-dlp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, downloader, downloaders, media. - [youtubedr](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/youtubedr/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, downloader, downloaders, media. - [dash-mpd-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dash-mpd-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, downloaders, media. - [dezoomify-rs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dezoomify-rs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, downloaders, media. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/instalooter.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/instalooter.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - cross-ecosystem install command graph