If you have an Instagram account, then you will also have a large number of photographs you have shared with friends and family. The situation is also reciprocal, that is, other users of this social network have also shared their images so that you can review them at any time.
However Is there a way to save Instagram photos to our hard drive? The question is valid, even more so if we know certain details of this social network, one of them being the one that suggests the impossibility of being able to create a new account from a conventional browser and on a Windows computer, something that is solved if we use the respective applications for mobile devices and later, we dedicated ourselves to reviewing the material on the computer. Now, if you are interested in one or more images hosted on Instagram, we will now teach you how to proceed to save them on your hard drive.
Tricks and tips to use with Instagram
We will expand a little on what we mentioned in the previous paragraph, that is, how to create an Instagram account.
- First of all, we must go to the official website of the social network from our mobile device (Android or iOS).
- Once there, we must choose the version that corresponds to our device.
- We create a new account on this social network to receive access credentials.
- Now we turn to a conventional computer.
- We navigate to the official website and enter with the credentials previously created.
If we have proceeded as suggested, then in a very easy and simple way we can start working on Instagram from a conventional computer and with the Internet browser of our choice. For the rest of the tutorial It is recommended to have a recent browser, since we will use certain functions that only these can have.
Search photos using the Web Console
Once we enter our Instagram profile or account, we will only have to start browsing other different accounts. If we have seen any image that has interested us, the same we could be saving it on our computer (or rather, on the hard drive) using the following procedure:
- We look for the Instagram photograph that we are interested in saving to the hard drive.
- Once on the page, we click with the right mouse button.
- There we choose «inspect element» from the generated context menu.
- A window will open at the bottom.
- There we will look for the URL link of the image that we are interested in saving on the hard drive.
This URL will have certain elements that will be very easy to identify; besides the word Instagram and photos, the “src” tag must also be present which means "source." We will only have to select said link with the right mouse button and proceed to save it on our hard drive.
Save our photos from the camera application
We could also save the photos that we have to share later through our Instagram profile. To do this we will only have to go to the configuration of the application that is linked directly to the camera.
Going a little further down this interface, we will have to activate the option that says "Save Original Photos" as shown in the previous image. With this, all the photos will be saved in an album that will have the same name as the one we have created on the social network.
Save another user's photos with a third-party app
Many people like to use third-party applications, because these tools are already configured so that their users, Only use the buttons necessary to perform the desired task. At this time we recommend using the application called Instagrab, which will help us save photographs that belong to other Instagram users.
As you can admire in the previous image, the only thing we need to do is Select the “Save” button, with which the image that we have found will be saved immediately.
There are only a few alternatives that we have offered, there are many more to choose from, although they may involve having to make some type of payment to the developer.