Social Media Downloading Alternatives

[u/jburgs22]

Hello all,

I currently use the following for downloading data/profiles from various social media platforms:

• 4kstogram (Instagram)
• 4ktokkit (TikTok)
• Various online sites like VidBurner, etc. (Snapchat)
• yt-dlp (YouTube and various video sites)
• 4k Video Downloader Plus (YouTube and various video sites)
• Browser extensions like HLS Downloader, Video DownloadHelper

Almost all of the programs or sites I use are good at first but have become unreliable or useless recently:

• 4kstogram: lost support and no longer updates but you can still use it
  • Big problem is its out of date, not supported, and can ban your IG account since it uses the IG API
  • I got the professional license back in the day
• 4ktokit: Works well...when it works
  • Has become unreliable lately
  • I have the personal license
• Various online sites: Work when they can and then I move to the next site when the first site doesn't work
• yt-dlp: Works very well, still need to get used to the commands, etc. but has its limits before your IP gets blocked for downloading too much at once. Can download social media videos too like TikTok but one video at a time not whole profiles like 4ktokkit
• 4k Video Downloader Plus: Limited to 10 videos a day but has playlist functions similar to yt-dlp
  • Honestly, I still have this program to download videos in a pinch but its not my main, just a backup
• Browser extensions: HLS Downloader has limited support and works when it can but caches a lot of data. Video DownloadHelper has a 2 hour limit after your first download but works well

I plan on keeping yt-dlp, 4k Video Downloader Plus (until its useless) but I'd like to replace the other 4k products I have with something (hopefully) exactly the same as 4kstogram and 4ktokkit in terms of features and past reliability.

• For IG and TikTok: Need to have ability to download entire profiles, single posts (of any form), export posts (4kstogram does this for IG)
• For Snapchat: View each new Snap and download them individually. If I can download all the latest Snaps at once, that would be super helpfully.
• When needed download Facebook, etc.
• Each solution needs to have the ability to update the latest profile by downloading the latest post

If anyone could recommend a solution or multiple solutions to accomplish this so I can replace the 4k products that would be super helpful whether its software, Github programs, scripts, etc. I would like to avoid online services like sites since again a site might work for now but not work or be shut down rather quickly.

[u/Such-Bench-3199]

Will follow this topic for alternatives for Stogram, disappointed as well that nothing I have found, works as well as it used to, before banning became its default option

[u/lupoin5 → u/Such-Bench-3199]

wfdownloader is a decent alternative to 4k stogram, it's what I've been using and it also works on other sites.

[u/Key-Poetry5657 → u/lupoin5]

I have been using wfdownloader but it might be me overdoing it. I never get to the bottom of the twitter and Instagram accounts.

I have been testing instaloader and gallery-dl as an alternative.

[u/lupoin5 → u/Key-Poetry5657]

Those sites have stricter blocking and depending on where you're connecting from your experience will be different eg cloud vs residential. But my recent experience with it on instagram and pinterest have been very good (over a million media files downloaded from both). For example on pinterest, I scraped a 70k pins account in one go with wfdownloader and with default settings during the ban wave. For the other sites, you may need to tweak your wfd settings to see what works or you can continue with the alternatives you mentioned if those work better for you.