Instagram Export
I want to get off social media, or at least reduce my presence, and I thought I’d get all my data. This is a post about Instagram.
First I did this: https://help.instagram.com/7130835797039956/
The download is a zip file with supposedly all of your information. It does not provide everything. Some of the data is limited to the previous week, some is limited to when Instagram features came in and out of use.
Should I start with the file named
start_here.html? Yes. It provides a good structure for this post as well. I’m going to include all the categories and lots of information in an anonymous way.
About your download
Your information can be found in the HTML files in this download. We recommend viewing your download on a desktop device in order to use these links to navigate to your information. The links don’t work on mobile devices.
On a mobile device, use the folders in the download to go to the HTML files. Each type of information is stored in its own HTML file and can be viewed by opening the file.
Avatars Store
Info associated with Avatars Store, such as your personal avatar, and avatar items that you purchased or added to your wardrobe
You have no data in this section
Shopping
Information about your shopping activity on Instagram
You have no data in this section
Events
Your reminders for events and a list of the events you’ve created
You have no data in this section
Fundraisers
Fundraisers that you created, joined or added to profile
You have no data in this section
Gifts
Information about gifts that you’ve sent or received on Instagram
You have no data in this section
Meta Spark
A list of your activities on Meta Spark
You have no data in this section
Monetisation
Information about your monetisation eligibility and activity on Instagram
Information about you that Instagram uses to decide which monetization products you’re eligible for
| Product name: BRANDED CONTENT |
| Decision: Eligible |
Saved
Posts, collections, draft videos, music, locations, and reposts you’ve saved
I had 20 saved posts and now I have none. Here are some highlights.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BbIcbmjHUwb/
https://www.instagram.com/reels/CztqgMUpIdy/
https://www.instagram.com/reels/C4JuLnUsLIi/
https://www.instagram.com/reels/C6HDWCQoJfq/
https://www.instagram.com/reels/C9C5Iu-y5Pt/
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-NERIkIGki/
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-_hvyRMTpl/
Story interactions
Interactions that you’ve had with other people’s stories
Quizzes (8 interactions from 2019 to 2023)
Question Music Response (5 interactions from 2020 to 2021)
Emoji sliders (15 interactions from 2018 to 2021, 11 of which were 100)
Polls (Chart below)
Questions (Chart below)
Story Reaction Sticker Reactions (2 from 2023)
Story likes (Chart below)
Subscriptions
Profiles you’ve subscribed to or that have subscribed to you
Your muted story teaser creators
Show Exclusive Story Promo Setting
No data
Other activity
Other information and activity from different areas of Instagram
You have no data in this section
Quicksnaps
Information about quicksnaps that you’ve interacted with on Instagram
You have no data in this section
Edits
All of your data related to Edits
You have no data in this section
Reports
Reports that you’ve submitted to Instagram
You have no data in this section
AI
Generative AI products
You have no data in this section
Messages
Messages that you’ve exchanged with other people
A list of devices where you have access to the secret conversations feature
Phone and laptop, no secret conversations.
Looks like some spam, among the 168 conversations.
Auto-fill information
Auto-fill information for your Instagram profile
You have no data in this section
Loyalty accounts
Information about your loyalty accounts
You have no data in this section
Personal information
Personal information you’ve added to your profile
| Contact syncing: False |
| First country code: NZ |
| Has shared live video: False |
| Last login |
| Last logout |
| First story time |
| Last story time |
Profile change
| Changed: Username |
| New value: nmoorenz |
Profile change
| Changed: Profile Name |
| New value: Nathan Moore |
Your location sharing settings and friends that you are sharing location data with
Sharing audience: ONLY_OWNER
Your recent Note interactions.
| Last notes seen time |
No Data
| Email address |
| Phone number confirmed |
| Username |
| Name |
| Bio |
| Gender |
| Date of birth |
| Private account |
| Emoji Pong high score |
Device information
Information about your devices
5 phones in 9 years, and two laptop records, which might be true, for the ones I’ve logged in from.
Turned on
Camera metadata
Information about you
Information associated with your Instagram profile
The city that your profile is most likely to be based in
Town/city name: Auckland, New Zealand
Locations we think you may be interested in based on your activity on Instagram such as tagging your location, IP address and joining local groups
Locations of interest Auckland Region Northland Region Waikato |
| Usage explanation |
Facebook Accounts Centre
Control settings for connected experiences such as logging in and sharing stories and posts across Messenger, Facebook and Instagram.
You have no data in this section
Contacts
Contact information you’ve added for other people
You have no data in this section
Followers and following
Profiles and tags you choose to see content from, and profiles that follow you
Followers (Chart below)
Following (Chart below)
Pending follow requests 7 pending requests from a variety of time
Removed suggestions (Chart below)
Blocked profiles 8 blocked profiles, all in Sep and Oct 2021, I must have been on some kind of streak about poker and pool accounts.
Link history
Website links that you’ve visited on Instagram’s in-app browser
When you choose to allow link history, website links for your recent in-app browsing activity are saved and this information may be used to improve your ads across Meta technologies. When you choose to not allow link history, your in-app browsing activity won’t be saved or used to improve your ads. You can manage your link history settings from your in-app browser settings at any time
I do not allow Instagram to keep link history
Past Instagram insights
Your Instagram insights data
You have no data in this section
Policy updates and permissions
Policy updates and permission requests from Instagram or Meta that you’ve viewed, acknowledged, accepted or declined
You have no data in this section
Recent searches
A history of your recent searches
You have no data in this section
Login and profile creation
Information associated with your profile, such as your login activity and the information that you provided when you signed up
A history of the dates and times that you’ve updated your profile’s privacy
My profile is currently private
Information about your last known location on Instagram, including GPS coordinates and upload times
| Imprecise latitude 0 |
| Imprecise longitude 0 |
| Precise latitude 0 |
| Precise longitude 0 |
Password change activity 7 password changes 2012 - 2026
A history of the dates and times you’ve changed your password
Login activity Many logins
Logout activity 12 logouts
Sign-up details May 08, 2012 10:06 pm
Apps and websites
Apps and websites that you’ve connected to your profile
Your activity off-Meta technologies settings
Account association disabled
Your topics
A collection of topics selected and determined by your activity on Instagram that is used to create recommendations for you in different areas of Instagram, such as Reels, feed recommendations and Shopping
Soccer, Basketball, Foods, Meat & Seafood, Video Games, Fashion Products, Types of Sports, Baked Goods, Dance, Nature Landmarks & Destinations, Football Family of Sports, Travel Destinations, Ground Transportation, Musical Instruments, Gym Workouts, Travel, Beach Travel, Fashion, Mammals, Clothing & Accessory Product Types, Dogs, Water Sports, Drinks, Toys, Music by Genre, Beauty, Animals, Visual Arts, Farm Animals, Cats, Clothing & Accessories, Desserts, Pets
These seem very vanilla
Settings
Changes you’ve made to your settings
Use cross-app messaging Upgrade to cross-app messaging
Comments allowed from Everyone
These are the Push Notification settings.
Instagram did not send email notification settings, which are now all turned off.
These do not match the settings on Instagram, which is weird and annoying.
OFF
STICKER_RESPONSES_POLL
UPLOADS_AND_SHARING
POSTS_SUGGESTED
TEXT_POST_APP_FIRST_POSTS
TEXT_POST_APP_PRE_FOLLOWED_CREATOR_JOINED
TEXT_POST_APP_ACCOUNT_SUGGESTIONS
TEXT_POST_APP_FOLLOWS_AND_REQUESTS
TEXT_POST_APP_TREND
TEXT_POST_APP_PEOPLE_YOU_MAY_FOLLOW
TEXT_POST_APP_FEATURE_UPDATES
THREADS_APP_CHURN_REMINDERS
THREADS_APP_DAILY_DIGEST
SHOPPING_ACCOUNTS_YOU_FOLLOW
SHOPPING_SUGGESTED_FOR_YOU
BIRTHDAY_REMINDERS
TRENDING_PLACES
CLIPS_ADD_YOURS_CREATOR_INVITE_FANOUT
CLIPS_CAMERA_ROLL_ACR_READY
OPEN_CAROUSEL_ADD_SUBMISSION
IGD_NOTES_AWARENESS
COMMENT_DAILY_DIGEST
CONNECTION_NOTIFICATION
CLIPS_MOST_WATCHED
FUNDRAISER_CREATOR
FUNDRAISER_SUPPORTER
CLIPS_RECENTLY_UPLOADED
FIRST_POST
REPORT_UPDATED
LIVE_BROADCAST
VIEW_COUNT
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NOTIFICATION_REMINDERS
CONTACT_JOINED
EVERYONE
MILESTONE_LIKES
REQUEST_MENTION
OPEN_CAROUSEL_SUBMISSION_ACCEPTED
FOLLOW_REQUEST_ACCEPTED
COMMENTS
USER_TAGGED
LIKE_AND_COMMENT_ON_PHOTO_USER_TAGGED
NEW_FOLLOWER
DIRECT_SHARE_ACTIVITY
LIKES
PENDING_DIRECT_SHARE
FOLLOWING
COMMENT_LIKES
Consent for the processing of user’s data by ad partners on Instagram
2018 and 2025 for something
Instagram ads and businesses
Ad topics that are relevant to you, advertisers who have collected information directly from you, information you’ve submitted to advertisers and your interactions with businesses and organisations that you visit off Instagram
Information that you’ve submitted to advertisers
Email address, company name, job title - not sure when or why I did this.
Ads about Meta Opted out
Ad preferences Removed categories: many. Hidden ads: many.
Advertising
Information that you’ve provided when creating ads
You have no data in this section
Ads and topics
Ads, profiles, content and topics. Topics from any linked profiles must be downloaded from those profiles directly
Suggested profiles viewed Plenty of profiles, between 2017 and 2020, not a feature or not tracked anymore.
Ads clicked Last week of data only, 2 ads clicked.
Posts viewed Last week of data only
Ads viewed Last week of data only
Profiles that you’re not interested in 6 profiles between 2021 and 2026
Videos watched Last week of data only
Posts you’re not interested in
Conclusion
This was interesting even though I haven’t used many of the possible Instragram features. I think charts is the best way to show activity. I had planned to show some different pages, but I didn’t, and all the links here are broken. The pages are either not interesting or not anonymous enough.
This might be useful for someone else to look at their Instagram statistics, the code is available on my GitHub. For the sake of presentation I have not included it in this post. (I also couldn’t figure out how to get code folding to work).
Because I have collected the data along the way, I can put it all together. Two charts here, because ‘Not Interested’ dominates the other measures.
Comments
Comments you’ve posted on your own content or on other people’s content
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Reels Comments
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