Download an Instagram video from a public post

Almost always access. A private account, a post that expects a logged-in viewer or a deleted item cannot be read anonymously, and this page has no cookie handover that would change that. Age-restricted items land in the same group of failures.

That rung was not published for this post. The four tiers exist across Instagram generally, but the parser reports what this particular item offers right now, and a vertical video uploaded at a smaller size is not upscaled to fill the list.

Because the post genuinely has no audio track. Screen recordings, silent clips and some carousel items are published without sound, and a conversion cannot invent one, so the MP3 entry is withheld while the video tier stays downloadable as normal.

No. Following the account does not help, because the parse runs without your session and sees only what an anonymous request sees. A public post from the same account would work; a followers-only one keeps failing until it is made public.

This page is documented for public posts and reels. A story is served only to a logged-in viewer, so it falls on the same login-required path as any other session-gated item, and the parser reports that rather than returning a partial or empty result.

We add nothing. The MP4 you receive is the video stream the post itself serves, with no ClipVault overlay and no resolution change beyond whatever the tier already is. If the post has a caption burned into the picture, that stays as published.

Yes, when the post has a track. The MP3 entry sits beside the video tiers on the same parse result and is produced with ffmpeg from that track. Silent posts are the exception, and they are labelled explicitly instead of failing with a generic error.

There is no daily quota and no account to limit you. Two jobs run at once across the service, one per IP, so a batch pasted quickly returns busy signals for the excess and accepts the next request once a slot frees up again.