I've been archiving a number of accounts for at least 3 years now. I've mainly used https://instaloader.github.io/. Had no problem initially, but now it's pretty easy for an account I use to be suspended. I tried spacing out my downloads but it didn't help. Any thoughts or tips? Source: about 1 year ago

Lol thank you, I used a script from github that does it automatically so it only takes a few seconds, I will keep updating this one but if somebody needs it for future archiving I used https://instaloader.github.io/. Source: over 1 year ago

I would start with python and a library like this one: https://instaloader.github.io/. Source: over 1 year ago

I'm also partial to https://instaloader.github.io/ for Instagram specifically. Source: almost 2 years ago

I use Instaloader and Crontab for this, which I run on a server (because my server runs 24/7). Source: almost 2 years ago

> Any links or ideas of how to make sure Google is aware of this? Cancel the account. That's the only real signal you can send. Switch to simply downloading YT content: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp. - Source: Hacker News / about 6 hours ago

If you're looking to download source material from the internet, yt-dlp is a great tool that can extract and save videos locally from a wide variety of sources like youtube, twitter and more. - Source: dev.to / 2 days ago

The classic yt-dlp was how this all began, to be honest this one still confuses me but well figure that out in development. - Source: dev.to / 19 days ago

This seems to be a pretty straightforward GUI wrapper around https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeExplode (see https://github.com/PackJC/YoutubeToMP3/blob/main/Form1.cs is a well-maintained public domain alternative. - Source: Hacker News / 24 days ago

For me, the less-complicated client called "DVD" is more reliable for downloading than the client called "Newpipe"; the later stops working intermittently. YMMV. (Neither are as reliable as using own custom command line programs on desktop, or mobile via Termux. If Google makes a change I can fix/workaround immediately. No waiting for app developers.) For me, Newpipe works well as a Soundlcoud client. From the... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago