PostSnap

Save posts from Instagram to a local library: every image, the caption and details. Browse in a side panel, export to Markdown.

PostSnap keeps your own copy of the Instagram posts you want to hang on to. Every carousel image, the caption and the details, saved in your browser. PostSnap is an independent tool for Instagram. It is not affiliated with Instagram or Meta. Save a post: • Open a post and click the PostSnap toolbar button. That's it. • On your feed, a profile or Explore, click the button, then click any post. It's saved without leaving the page. • On your Saved tab, click the button to save all your saved posts, or one collection. Posts you already have are skipped, and each post remembers its collection. If you like, PostSnap can then remove each post from the collection, or unsave it, once it's safely in your library. It asks first. • Carousels keep every slide, video slides included. Reels keep their video. • Posts you've already saved show a small check as you browse Instagram, so you don't pick them twice. You can turn that off in Settings. What gets saved: • Every image, at the largest size Instagram offers. • The caption, the author, and when it was posted. • Details as of the moment you saved it: likes, comment count, views, location, tagged accounts, co-authors, audio, and whether it's a paid partnership. • The alt text Instagram has for each image, when there is one. Your library: • Opens in a tab or in the browser's side panel, right next to the feed. • Search captions, authors, places, collections and your own notes. Filter by collection, author, type or favourites, and sort by date saved, date posted or author. • Star your favourites, and add a note of your own to any post. • Make your own collections alongside Instagram's. Rename or delete them, and move posts between them. • Select a run of posts with Shift-click, and make the previews bigger or smaller. • Open one to step through its slides and read its details. Copy the caption, or download an image or video. Arrow keys move between posts. • Deleted posts wait in Trash for 30 days, so you can restore them. Export to Markdown: • Pick a folder once in Settings. Your Obsidian vault works, or any other folder. • Export one post, a selection, or everything. Each post becomes a note with frontmatter, images beside it. Favourites and your notes come along. • Obsidian embeds, or standard Markdown links for apps like Typora, VS Code or Bear. • Notes already in the folder are skipped unless you choose to overwrite them, so your edits are safe. Back up: • Save your whole library, images and videos included, to one file you keep. Restore it on any browser. Settings: highlight color, marking saved posts on Instagram, open the side panel while you pick, keyboard shortcuts, note and image folders, tags, and a file name prefix. Storage shows how much space your archive takes, and can ask the browser not to clear it when disk space runs low. Privacy: no account, no analytics, and no server of ours. Saved posts stay in your browser on this device. PostSnap only talks to Instagram: it reads the posts you pick, or your own Saved list, the same way instagram.com does, signed in as you, and downloads those posts' images from Instagram's servers. It changes your Saved list only if you ask it to. The saved-post check works on your device: a small script reads the post links on the Instagram page and compares them with your library, and sends nothing. Settings sync with your browser if sync is on. Exports and backups go only where you choose. Full policy: https://www.appsnitato.com/postsnap/privacy.html