Tips & Tricks
Instagram ID
# Instagram User ID can be very important to investigate
# Each account has a unique user ID linked to the @username
# Some websites allows to get it for an account
https://codeofaninja.com/tools/find-instagram-user-id
# You can then trace and spot re-used instagram account by
# searching for old names and post, for example using
# Google DorksMirrors
# Instagram Mirrors can be usefull to browse Instagram accounts
# Search features are less restrictive
# Some deleted content can still be indexed
https://rankersta.com/
https://pikdo.biz/
https://www.piwox.com/
https://gramfly.com/
https://web.stagram.comDownloaders
# Instagram Online Downloaders
https://downloadgram.com/
https://www.instadp.com/
https://www.instadp.com/
https://instasave.xyz/Location Search
https://twitter.com/quiztime/status/1339231557509402624
https://github.com/bellingcat/instagram-location-search
# You can searh instagram posts for a specific location
python3 instagram-locations.py --session "<session-id-token>" --lat 32.22 --lng -110.97 --csv locs.csv
# Usage with date
python3 instagram-locations.py --session "<session-id-token>" --lat 47.6164311 --lng -122.3203952 --map map.html --date 2020-06-09Manual investigation
# Viewing Instagram accounts without being logged in
# METHOD 1 - JSON
# You can User ID, user bio, posts infos...
# But you can only see the first 11 messages
https://www.instagram.com/targetAccount
https://www.instagram.com/targetAccount?__a=1
# METHOD 2 - Developper Tools
# On the profile, go F12
# View the "<body class =" "style =" overflow: hidden; ">" section ==> visible
# "<div class =" RnEpo Yx5HN "role = presentation">" ==> Delete node
# METHOD 3 - Adlocker
# Ublock Origin ==> "Element Sector Mode"
# Click on the Instagram pop-up
# Add & Create :
# - ##.Yx5HN.RnEpo
# - ##body:style(overflow: visible !important;)
# METHOD 4 : Images
# Go to target account
# Click on any image and browse using arrow keys
# METHOD 5 : Embed
# You can add /embed/captioned at the end of the URL to get the post
/p/CGvIxnpFrzL/embed/captionedToutatis (https://github.com/megadose/toutatis/)
# Toutatis is a small python script used to retrieve informations such as phone number or target e-mail.
# It needs a valid session id (cookie)
# You can also search for a bunch of profiles
$ python toutatis.py -u starbucks -i ep -s <session_id>
The informations about : starbucks
User id : 1034466
Phone of starbucks : 18007827282
Mail of starbucks : info@starbucks.comOSI.IG
# Simple python script used to scrape and parse data from Instagram
# NOTE : pictures downloaded are sent to tinyurl
$ python3 main.py -h
usage: main.py [-h] -u USERNAME [-p] [-s]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
username of account to scan
-p, --postscrap scrape all uploaded images info
-s, --savedata save data to fileInstagramOSINT (https://github.com/sc1341/InstagramOSINT)
# The Instagram OSINT Tool gets a range of information from an Instagram account
# that you normally wouldn't be able to get from just looking at their profile
# Username
# Profile Name
# URL
# Followers
# Following
# Number of Posts
# Bio
# Profile Picture URL
# Is Business Account?
# Connected to a FB account?
# External URL
# Joined Recently?
# Business Category Name
# Is private?
# Is Verified?
# Downloads Public Photos
python3 main.py --username USERNAMEInstaloader (https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader)
# Downloads public and private profiles, hashtags, user stories,feeds and saved media,
# Downloads comments, geotags and captions of each post,
# Automatically detects profile name changes and renames the targetdirectory accordingly,
# Allows fine-grained customization of filters and where to storedownloaded media.
# Download public profile informations
instaloader profile <profile-name>
# Download private profile informations
instaloader --login=<username> profile <profile-name>InstaLooter (https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter)
# Another tool used to download information on public profiles
# No API call
# Usage
instalooter --usage / instalooter --help
# Download all pictures from an account
instalooter user <username>
# Download single post
instalooter post "https://www.instagram.com/p/BFB6znLg5s1/" ~/Pictures
# Download the latest 20 pictures or videos tagged with python to /tmp
instalooter hashtag python /tmp -n 20 -v -c MYLOGINLast updated