Download Instagram Videos — feed posts, carousels and long-form uploads

What you actually get

A feed video comes back as an MP4 — H.264 video, AAC audio — exactly as Instagram serves it. Nothing is re-encoded on the way through, so there is no second round of compression and no watermark is added to the frame.

The difference between this and a Reel is shape. Reels are always 9:16 vertical. Feed posts are not: Instagram accepts anything from 1.91:1 landscape through 1:1 square to 4:5 portrait, and the file you get back keeps whatever the poster chose. Practically, that means you cannot assume a fixed resolution — a square post is typically 1080×1080, a portrait one 1080×1350, a landscape one 1080×566. If you are collecting clips to edit together, this is the thing that will bite you, because they will not line up without cropping.

Length differs too. Reels stop at 90 seconds; a feed video can run up to 60 minutes. Most are short, but a long-form upload can be several hundred megabytes, so give it a moment on a slow connection before assuming it has failed.

Carousels: posts with more than one video

This is the case that has no equivalent on the Reels side. A single feed post can hold up to 20 items, mixing photos and videos in one carousel behind one URL. Paste that URL and you get the whole set back as separate items rather than one merged file — pick the ones you want.

Two consequences follow. Each slide keeps its own aspect ratio, so a carousel can legitimately return a square clip next to a portrait one. And there is no way to link to slide 4 on its own: Instagram gives the post one URL, so you always fetch the full set and choose from the results.

Getting the right URL

A feed post link looks like instagram.com/p/<code>/. Tap the three dots above the post and choose Link or Copy link; on the web the share icon does the same. Paste it into the box above exactly as copied — the tracking parameters after a ? are harmless.

If your link contains /reel/ instead of /p/, it is a Reel. It will still work here, but the Reels downloader page covers the things specific to that format — the vertical crop, the 90-second cap and the music-licensing problem that comes with it.

Older links may point at /tv/. That was IGTV, which Instagram folded into ordinary feed video in 2022; those URLs still resolve and this tool handles them.

What this tool cannot do

Worth knowing up front, so you do not waste time trying:

• Private accounts. If the account is private, its posts are not publicly reachable and nothing will load — even if you follow that account yourself. The request comes from our server, which is not logged in as you.
• Deleted or archived posts. Once a post is removed from Instagram it is gone here too. There is no cache to fall back on.
• A single slide from a carousel. Instagram gives the whole post one URL, so you get the full set and pick from it.
• Audio on its own. You get the MP4. Pulling the track out to MP3 is a separate job for a converter on your own machine.
• Live broadcasts. A live video is only fetchable once it has finished and been posted; while it is still running there is no stable file to retrieve.
• Stories and Highlights. Different format entirely — use the Story downloader for those.

If nothing comes back

Nine times out of ten the URL is the problem. Check that it contains /p/, /reel/ or /tv/ and not /stories/, and that you copied the whole thing rather than a version a chat app truncated for display. A bare profile link — instagram.com/username with nothing after it — will not work either; this tool needs a specific post, not an account.

If the URL is right and it still fails, the post is most likely private, deleted, or from an account that has since gone private. All three produce the same empty result, because from the outside they are indistinguishable. One more possibility specific to feed posts: if the post contains only photos and no video, there is no MP4 to return.

Where the file ends up on your device

On Windows and macOS, Download saves to your browser's usual downloads folder. On Android, it lands in Downloads and appears in your gallery once the media scanner indexes it. On iPhone and iPad it works differently and this trips people up: Safari saves to the Files app, not to Photos. Open Files → Downloads, tap the file, then use the share sheet and choose "Save Video" to move it into your camera roll. With a carousel you will be saving several files, so it is worth doing them one at a time rather than losing track of which is which.

Privacy, and what saving does not give you

You do not log in, so no account of yours is involved at any point. The poster is not notified that their video was downloaded — Instagram exposes no such signal. The file itself is not stored on our servers; it is fetched and streamed straight to your device. Like any web server we do write ordinary access logs, which include IP addresses; the privacy policy sets out what is kept and for how long.

One thing worth stating plainly: saving a video does not give you the right to republish it. Whoever made it holds the copyright. Keeping something for yourself is a different matter from reposting it, and reposting without permission can get your own account actioned.

If a feed video is not what you needed

For vertical clips from the Reels tab, use the Reels downloader — same engine, but that page covers the 9:16 crop, the 90-second limit and the audio-licensing catch that only applies to Reels. Use the Story downloader for 24-hour Stories, the profile picture downloader to pull an account's DP at full size, or copy an Instagram bio as plain text. There is also a private video downloader, though it involves a more manual process.