Gallery-dl: Trying to download Saved Posts on Instagram

[mkultraprogramming]

I'm completely new to this, so forgive my probably stupid problem, but I am using windows 10 and the command prompt to run gallery-dl. So far, I managed to save the posts from a public account on Instagram with no problem, but do not know how to properly give gallery-dl my own login info to access my Saved Posts and download them. It's probably a formatting issue on my part or forgetting some step, but I could really use some help with this. Thank you.

[shinji257]

Try adding cookies from your browser by checking out this.

https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl#cookies

[mikf]

You can also directly use your Instagram username and password with the --username and --password command-line flags:

gallery-dl --username "USER" --password "PASS" https://www.instagram.com/instagram/saved/

or you create a configuration file and put your credentials in there:

{
    "extractor": {
        "instagram": {
            "username": "USER",
            "password": "PASS"
        }
    }
}

(see https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl#username--password)