Python 3 Instaloader Script to Download Profile Picture of Instagram User in Command Line

Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be downloading the profile picture of instagram user using username in command line using instaloader library in python. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to install the below library using the pip command as shown below

pip install instaloader

After this you need to make an app.py file and copy paste the following code

app.py

import instaloader
test = instaloader.Instaloader()
acc = input('Enter the Account Username: ')
test.download_profile(acc, profile_pic_only = True)

import instaloader

test = instaloader.Instaloader()

acc = input('Enter the Account Username: ')

test.download_profile(acc, profile_pic_only = True)

As you can see we are importing the instaloader library and then we are asking the user to input the instagram username in the command line. For this we are using the input() function and then we are using the download() function to download the profile pic of the user. Here inside the function we are passing 2 arguments. First is the instagram username and then we are providing the boolean parameter of profile_pic_only