How to make and view an Instagram backup

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Learning how to backup Instagram is very important, whether you have a business or personal account. Since through a backup you can back up all the information and if at any time you have a problem with the account, you do not lose all the content you have created in it.

If you do not know how to backup Instagram in this article, we give you the method that is extremely useful for you to backup your account information.

Steps to Backup Instagram without Third Party Apps

If you want to make a backup without the need to download any external application, you just have to follow the steps that we give you below:

  1. The first thing you should do is enter your user from your computer or mobile, obviously using your password and username.
  2. Once you have entered, you must go to your profile and select the privacy and security option.
  3. Once you are in the privacy and security section, you should look for the option called “data download".
  4. In the data download section you must choose the option “request download".
  5. Once you have requested the download, Instagram will take you to a menu in which they ask you the format in which you want, they send you the link with the information. They give you two options HTML or .JSON, the latter is the best option because you can import it into another service that allows you to view the data.
  6. Once you have selected the option you prefer, you must press the option “siguiente".
  7. When you press the next option, you are asked to re-enter the user password to confirm that you are the one doing the download.
  8. Once you enter the user data, you can press the option “download data”, when doing so, the platform tells you that the download link will arrive in your email in 48 hours and that it will be available for download only for 4 days.
  9. Once you receive the link to your email, you just have to press the link and proceed with the download of your Instagram data.

Once all these steps have been carried out, you will be able to obtain the Instagram backup and thus back up your data. Ideally, you download this data to your personal computer, thus preventing data such as images, videos, Reels and other data from falling into the wrong hands.

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How can I see the Instagram backup that has arrived in my email?

If you have managed to create the Instagram backup, but you want to see which files you have backed up, you can follow the following steps:

  1. The first thing you should do is check what format the file has that you have downloaded from the link that has been sent to you on Instagram. Usually the file is in ZIP format.
  2. Once you have found the ZIP file, you must create a folder on your computer in which the file will be unzipped.
  3. Once the folder is created, take the ZIP file to it, press the right button and select the extract option here. (In order to unzip the file you must have the ZIP program installed on your computer).
  4. Once you have unzipped the file they will show you a series of folders and files in .Json format. Which give you information about comments, messages, likes you received, contacts, photos, stories, videos and much more data related to your account.

You have to keep in mind that in order to see the .json format files you can see them through Python, Excel, JavaScript, some online platforms and an application called JSON Genie.

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Steps to access Instagram backup with JSON Genie app

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The JSON Genie App It is very useful if you want to see the data that you have downloaded in the Instagram backup. Next, we will give you the steps so that you can achieve it:

  1. If what you want is to see the data in .json format you can download the JSON Genie app and once installed you must run the application.
  2. Once you run it on the menu button that is located in the upper left corner, you must enter and look for the option "Open JSON file".
  3. When pressing the option open JSON file and you must find the file with the JSON format what do you want to see.
  4. When selected, the application will upload the file so you can see the content that you have obtained from Instagram data downloads. To view all files in this format, repeat the procedure from step 6 for each of the files you wish to view.
Json Genie (Viewer & Editor)
Json Genie (Viewer & Editor)
Developer: Tuyware
Price: Free

The combination of both procedures can be considered quite long, but once you do it for the first time, then it becomes easy for you when you want to see the rest of the files that you have downloaded in your Instagram backup.


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