Gallery-dl: Is there a way to download private, but following IG accounts?

[thinkpad4]

Hi, is there a way to download IG profiles that are private but that you are following? On another tool I used to download IG profiles let you add your IG session ID to be able to download the images of private profiles that you are following. Sadly that tool isn't working anymore.

Thank you very much

[wankio]

extractor.*.username & .password

or you can using cookie instead

"instagram":
{
"cookies": {
"sessionid": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
},

[thinkpad4]

And where do I put that info?

[arisboch]

Can (happily) confirm wankio's solution

[arisboch]

@thinkpad4 Into the config file

[mikf]

@thinkpad4 The README has a section on both configuration and authentication

[thinkpad4]

I can't figure this out, does the config go in appdata roaming or not? How exactly does the session id method meant to look like? The readme section is confusing for me

@arisboch can you post how you have yours set up, of course removing your session id and/or username and password please?

[arisboch]

@thinkpad4 Tomorrow

[thinkpad4]

@arisboch Thank you very much

[arisboch]

@thinkpad4 Use a cookie editor to view the cookies for the Instagram site and you'll find an entry with the name "sessionid", which contains (obviously) the session ID. Go to the instagram section (or create it) and add the following:
"instagram": { "cookies": {"sessionid": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"} },
And replace the "xxx..." with the session ID you got via the cookie editor.

[thinkpad4]

I put that info in the gallery-dl.conf file which goes in the appdata/roaming/gallery-dl folder and nothing happened. I entered gallery-dl and the IG url and it sat there for a minute, used cpu, finished and nothing happened. No pics, or anything. So I tried the username and password option in the command prompt and it wanted a URL even though the IG link WAS A URL. So unless someone can upload their gallery-dl.conf file with their info removed but set up correctly and tell me that the appdata/roaming/gallery-dl folder IS where the config file is supposed to go I'm out of luck.

Thank you @arisboch for trying to help. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong with JSON-based files.

[Hrxn]

Run gallery-dl with the -v option, like this:
gallery-dl -v <YOUR_URL_HERE>

And then copy and paste the terminal output here.

[thinkpad4]

I FIGURED IT OUT. The wiki says place the config file in appdata but it CAN'T be there it HAS to be in the same folder as gallery-dl.exe

MAN that was annoying. You should change the Configuration part of the Wiki to say NOT to place the gallery-dl.conf file in %APPDATA%gallery-dl\