Many people, including myself, are trying to move away from Facebook and their related apps/services. But before you delete any accounts, it’s obviously ideal if you can retrieve any data first.

With Instagram, you can request to download your data, and they’ll send a link where you can download all your images, videos, and stories.

You also get .json files for a lot of the associated data:

• Profile
• Comments
• Connections
• Likes
• Messages
• Searches
• Settings

So they really do give you everything!

To download your data:

• Go to the Instagram website.
• Click on the profile icon in the top right.
• Click on the Settings cog next to “Exit Profile”.
• Choose “Privacy and Security”.
• Scroll down to the “Data Download” section.
• Click “Request Download”.

Instagram will then package up all your data, and send you an email with a link to the .zip archive.