Instagram backup

Reading the human genome

In an early throw back thursday mode, I found a (relatively old) Instagram backup in my hard disk. What you get is a full collection of pictures and a JSON files with their captions, or at least this was what more than one year ago Instagram gave you.

For fun I wrote a small script to make some HTML, and this is the beta result:

I requested an updated dump, and if the format is somehow similar to what I got in the past, I’ll release the script to make the gallery.

Written on June 26, 2019