Appents Social Media Post Downloader

Download captions, view / like counts, images, and videos (non-streamed) from Instagram and X / Twitter posts.

🚀💡✅   We encourage submitting pull requests to add additional platforms / functionality.

This project is brought to you by Appents. Get in touch for your social media content analysis needs. We specialize in content analysis and enabling data-driven brand management.

Instructions

1. Navigate to a single Instagram / X post.
2. Click the Download button in this Chrome Extension.
3. Files and extracted data are downloaded to Downloads.

Unique features

• based on regular HTML content already fetched by browser
• downloaded data.json contains post id, user name, captions, and view / comment / like counts in JSON format

// fields returned in data.json on download
// "raw" is additional data for debugging
export type TargetFields = {
  id: string;
  content: string;
  created_at: string;
  like_count: number;
  comment_count: number;
  view_count: number;
  user_id: string;
  user_name: string;
  raw?: JsonObject | null;
  errors?: string[] | null;
};

Known Limitations

• One post at a time (no feed scraping)
• Only works in Chrome browser
• Can not save a post's video if streamed

Chrome Extension Starter Kit

This project was started using Chrome Extension Starter Kit.

The remainder of this readme file is from that project.

Prerequisites

• node + npm (Current Version)

Option

• Visual Studio Code

Includes the following

• TypeScript
• Webpack
• React
• Jest

Project Structure

• src/typescript: TypeScript source files
• src/assets: static files
• dist: Chrome Extension directory
• dist/js: Generated JavaScript files

Setup

npm install

Import as Visual Studio Code project

...

Build

npm run build

Build in watch mode

terminal

npm run watch

Visual Studio Code

Run watch mode.

type Ctrl + Shift + B

Load extension to chrome

Load dist directory

Test

npx jest or npm run test