Social networks have a strange possession mania unjustified of all the content that users upload to their respective services, without the user having the option to change the terms. By using these platforms, we are obliged to accept the terms of use with which that platform seizes the rights, at least in part.
To protect those rights, social media and video platforms do not allow easy download of available videos on their platforms, just like the images. However, while downloading images is as simple as taking a screenshot, the same is not the case with a video, at least not with Instagram.
The only platform that if it allows you to download the videos directly available, it is YouTubeas long as you are a YouTube Music subscriber. On Instagram or on Instagram TV we have the option to download the videos published on both platforms, so we are forced to resort to third-party applications / services in order to carry out this task.
As usual, most methods that work with a platform, do not usually work in the other, since the applications are usually exclusive although not always, especially if we talk about desktop computers.
How to download Instagram videos on any device
We find a very quick and simple solution to download Instagram videos on the DownloadGram website, a website where we only have to paste the address of the post that includes the video that we want to download and click on Download.
A second later a new button will be displayed with the text Download Video, button that will allow us to download the video of that publication to our team.
This free service we can use it both on mobile devices through any browser that allows us to download content (Safari, Chrome, Firefox) such as on any computerregardless of your operating system (Windows, macOS or Ubuntu).
How to download Instagram videos on iPhone
Amerigo
Behind this peculiar name, we find one of the best applications available on iOS for download any file, whether from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, web pages that allow us to reproduce the content via browser ...
In addition, allows us to extract the audio from the files to MP3 format so in combination with YouTube, we can create our own music platform for free without resorting to torrents, P2P links ...
To download any video from Instagram, we can copy the link from the post and paste it into Amerigo's browser. When the link loads and the video is displayed, the application will automatically detect that it is a video and it will show us a link to download it to our device.
Once downloaded, we can share it through the messaging applicationa, upload it to the storage services that we usually use, extract the audio from the video, move it to another folder, compress it so that it takes up less space ...
Amerigo is priced at 19,99 euros. But before deciding to buy it, we can use the version Amerigo Lite, a free version with fewer features but it serves us perfectly to download videos from Instagram.
Recording the iPhone screen
Another solution with which we can download Instagram videos is through the iOS option that allows us to record both the audio and the video of the screen, although later we will have to cut the areas of the video in black to make it better. This function can be found in iMovie, the totally free Apple application for all iOS users.
The iOS option that allows us to record the screen is found in the Control Center (sliding your finger from the top of the screen down). If the option does not appear, we must access Settings> Control Center and activate this function. We just have to click on the plus sign that is shown in front of that option.
Once we have this function activated, we just have to open the Instagram application, go to the video we want to record, access the Control Center and click on the button to record the screen. This function integrates a 3-second countdown.
Once we have recorded the video, we stop the screen recording. We go to the iMovie application and rwe cut the video to show us only the video, not the seconds before or after playback. We should also remember the height of the video so that only the video is shown and not the upper and lower frames of the screen.
How to download Instagram videos on Android
Download video from Instagram
As is usual in Android, for each of the functions that we may need we have an application (mostly free), something that unfortunately does not happen in the Apple App Store.
To download videos or any other type of content from Instagram, in the Play Store we have at our disposal the application Download video from Instagram.
With this name, so not very original, we find a simple application that allows us to download both images and videos from the social network Instagram. How? Here are the steps to follow to download Instagram videos with Download Instagram Video.
- First and foremost and access the Instagram application and copy the address of the publication to the clipboard of Instagram where the video we want to download is located.
- Next, we open the application and it is automatically paste the contents of the clipboard and the image or video of the post will be displayed.
- Finally we have to click on the button Download so that it is stored on our device.
How to download Instagram videos on a PC, Mac and Ubuntu
4K Stogram
One of the most complete applications to download videos and images from Instagram, we find it in the application 4K Stogram, an application from the same creators as 4K Video Downloader and with which we can download YouTube videos. 4K Sogram is cCompatible with both Windows and macOS as well as Ubutu.
This application allows us to subscribe to our favorite accounts to quickly see your feed and that all the content that has been posted is automatically downloaded to our device with absolutely nothing to do. The free version only allows us to subscribe to an account and has a maximum download limit of 200 images and videos.
Once we have added the account from which we want to download the video, the application will automatically will upload the last two posts and download them to our hard drive, specifically in the folder Pictures - 4K Stogram - account name.
By clicking on the image or video of the publication, it will open in full screen. To directly access the image or video in question, we must place the mouse over the image, click on the Right-click and select Show in Folder.