Yes. It is true that we have already talked other times about how to make backup copies of your Instagram profile or how to download any video from Instagram in a simple way. The fact is that in all the posts that we have dedicated to this topic we have always talked about how to do it from your computer or Mac and that is why today we want to take another step and explain a simple trick that will also allow you download Instagram photos and videos on Android.
Now you may be wondering; but… if Instagram already saves all the photos and videos that I publish in a folder on my phone, what is this trick for?
Well, very simple. The advantage of this trick is that it will also allow you to download photos and videos from any Instagram profile.
How to use GetThemAll to download Instagram photos and videos on your Android phone
GetThemAll is an application for Android that makes it possible to download multimedia content (images, videos, audio or PDF) from any web address. It is a very fast and easy-to-use application, and it will be with it that you will be able to download photos and videos from any Instagram profile. Decidedly, as long as the profile is public.
GetThemAll it crawls the HTML code of the web page that it passes in search of links to multimedia files, depending on the width of the file. As an example, all photos on Instagram are saved in the format JPG and the videos in format MP4, in this way, when the application GetThemAll detects a link from the Instagram web profile that leads to a file with one of those formats, it will show it to you in its download list so that with just one click on it you can download it to the memory of your Android mobile device.
The application of GetThemAll It is not intended to download photos or videos from the Instagram application, but from a web address, such as Instagram web profiles. Therefore, all you have to do to download them is to follow the steps that we are going to clarify for you below.
- Opens Google play and install GetThemAll on your Android phone.
- Open the Instagram app and find the photo or video you want to download. Then click on the 3 small dots found in the lower right corner of the post and select «Copy shared URL«. That will be copied to the clipboard from your phone, the web address where the file you want to download is stored.
- Now open the app GetThemAll, paste the URL you copied in the previous step and click the arrow to load the page containing the post.
- Once the publication (photo or video) is uploaded, you must click on the button with the arrow that appears just at the bottom right. This will make the application GetThemAll crawl the web for download links.
- When the scan is finished, it will show you a list of all the media files that you can download, including the photo or video you were looking for. In order to download instagram photos You just have to click on it and then click on «to download«.
- To finish, click on the «Records»And you can see your downloaded Instagram photo or video on your phone.
You have to keep in mind that all the videos and photos that you download with the application GetThemAll will be stored on your phone's memory card, specifically in the directory path «sdcard / GetThemAll / Downloaded / instagram.com_ [date]«. If you want, you can copy and paste them into the media gallery of your Android phone, using a file browsing application, such as: ES File Explorer.
Hopefully with this little trick to download Instagram photos and videos on Android, you can have the Instagram posts that you like the most stored on your phone and thus be able to share them with all your contacts.
