Social Media Image Downloader
The full-size image behind a post, not the one the feed shrank.
- 3 runs
- ~81 ms
- 50% success
Tool input
Overview
About this tool
Pulls the largest image a public post publishes — from Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, X, Threads, Tumblr, Reddit or any other page — including every slide of a carousel, and upgrades it to the original upload where the CDN allows it.
Instructions
How to use it
Paste the link to any public post, article or profile. The result lists every image the page publishes, with a download link for each.
Why not just right-click
Right-clicking a photo in a feed saves the copy the feed is showing — often 640 pixels wide where the upload was two thousand, and re-encoded on the way. The larger version is published separately, because it is what renders when the post is shared elsewhere, and that copy is the one worth having.
Where it stops
This reads the metadata a page publishes for link previews. It uses no login and touches nothing that requires being signed in — which means a private account, or a platform that answers with a sign-in wall, is reported as exactly that rather than guessed at.
Questions
Frequently asked
Can it download a whole Instagram carousel?
When Instagram publishes all the slides in its metadata, yes. Answering without a session it frequently publishes only the first, in which case a carousel comes back as a single image.
The download link stopped working.
Meta and several other platforms sign their image URLs and expire them, usually within a few hours. Save the file rather than bookmarking the link.
I pasted a video link.
You get its cover frame. This tool downloads images; it does not download video.
Is this legal?
Downloading a publicly published image for personal reference is ordinary use of the web. Republishing it, selling it, or passing it off as your own is a copyright matter regardless of how the file was obtained.
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