Instagram

File format: JSON. Expected wait: minutes to days, and up to 30 days at most.

Open Instagram export page

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Open the page and sign in. You should arrive in Accounts Centre, which may be called Meta Account settings.
If you don't land on the export screen, open Your information and permissions, then Export your information. It may also be called Download your information.
Click Create export.
Select your Instagram profile, then click Next.
Select Export to device.
Choose to customise the information, then tick your activity items, Logged information and Ads information.
Set the format to JSON and the date range to All time.
Click Start export and enter your password if asked.

Leave these out:

Messages
Media and content
Followers and following
Personal information

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Keep the zip as it is once downloaded. There's no need to unzip it.
Collect it from Available downloads soon after Instagram's email arrives, as the download window is limited.
If Facebook and Instagram are linked, you may need a separate export for each.
Deleted content isn't included.

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Covers: Instagram

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Prompt

I want to request a copy of my own data. Please help me, using the Robin Hood Data guide below.

Rules for you to follow:
1. Help me request my own data from each service, one at a time. Don't act on anyone else's account.
2. I log in and handle passwords and security checks myself. Never ask for a password or a code. If I start to share one in this chat, stop me.
3. Stick to that service's official pages, starting from the official page listed for it. Don't use other sites or outside export tools.
4. Confirm with me before submitting any export request.
5. Choose the settings in the guide: the file format, the date range and the items to tick.
6. Where the guide lists things to leave out, such as photos, videos or messages, don't request them.
7. Screens may differ from the guide. If something doesn't match, tell me rather than guessing.
8. Requesting a copy doesn't delete anything. Don't delete or change anything in my account.
9. When my export arrives, I'll open it in the tool at https://robinhooddata.applikuapp.com/tool/. It stays on my device.
10. Never ask me to paste or upload my export files into this AI, and don't offer to read them.

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## Instagram
Official page to start from: https://accountscenter.instagram.com/info_and_permissions/dyi/
File format: JSON
Expected wait: minutes to days, and up to 30 days at most
Guide date: 31 October 2026

Steps:
1. Open the page and sign in. You should arrive in Accounts Centre, which may be called Meta Account settings.
2. If you don't land on the export screen, open Your information and permissions, then Export your information. It may also be called Download your information.
3. Click Create export.
4. Select your Instagram profile, then click Next.
5. Select Export to device.
6. Choose to customise the information, then tick your activity items, Logged information and Ads information.
7. Set the format to JSON and the date range to All time.
8. Click Start export and enter your password if asked.

Leave out, so don't request these:
- Messages
- Media and content
- Followers and following
- Personal information

Worth knowing:
- Keep the zip as it is once downloaded. There's no need to unzip it.
- Collect it from Available downloads soon after Instagram's email arrives, as the download window is limited.
- If Facebook and Instagram are linked, you may need a separate export for each.
- Deleted content isn't included.

Start with the first step and go one step at a time.

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Written from public help pages on 31 October 2026. Screens change and differ between accounts, so yours may look different.

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