instagram-archive-viewer

Instagram Archive Viewer

View your main instagram feed and stories to a local website from your data download archive.

Getting started

First, download your instagram data archive.

Then run:

npx instagram-archive-viewer --input ~/Downloads/username_12345678.zip

For all options run:

npx instagram-archive-viewer --help

Will this expose my personal details?

This tool only runs on your machine. It uses your main feed, stories and profile (which contains your email address).

You can also:

• review the source code.
• unzip your archive yourself
• remove any sensitive information

I want to re-use this for my website

This project is an Eleventy site under the hood. You can:

• fork this project
• remove the bin folder.
• manually copy your archive into the src/_data directory.

Note: be careful as your archive contains sensitive information. By default it will be ignored by .gitignore but you may decide some of the already public parts of your archive are safe to commit.

Development

Running the project locally on your machine

You'll need Git and Node.js installed.

If you don't have Node.js, try installing Node Version Manager (NVM) before following the next steps.

1. Fork the project

2. Clone your forked project

git clone [e-mail]:your-username-here/instagram-archive-viewer.git

3. Navigate to the project

cd instagram-archive-viewer

4. Install Node.js using nvm (optional)

nvm use

5. Install dependencies

npm install

6. Run the site

npm start