IGDL
Save Instagram reels, videos, photos and full carousels.
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Details
- External ID
- 1271291
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- IGDL
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3252795148758764
- Tags
- Instagram, Photography, Video
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Save Instagram reels and photos by swapping one word IGDL downloads public Instagram reels, videos, photos and full carousels from a link, with no login and no app. The shortcut: change instagram.com to igdl.app in any post link and the download starts by itself. 26 languages, nothing stored.
Enrichment
- Niche
- Instagram utilities and creator tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- media downloader for instagram users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The front-end URL-swap concept is trivial, but keeping up with Instagram's anti-scraping mechanisms, rate limits, and constantly changing private GraphQL/mobile endpoints requires dedicated scraping infrastructure.
What it would actually take: The service needs a high-throughput proxy rotation network (residential proxies) coupled with reverse-engineered Instagram private API callers or browser-automation workers (Puppeteer/Playwright) that solve challenges and extract media CDN URLs. It demands constant maintenance to adapt to Instagram's frequent layout and API schema obfuscations.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 283 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #104 of 284 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 218 days after the earliest competitor.
- Instagram Video Downloader · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- IGsty · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- PasteDL · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Fast Insta Downloader · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Instagram Downloader · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- InstantFiles · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- DownloadReels · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- MediaGrab · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
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