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How to take screenshots of your Instagram

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Use the Chrome Extension for Instagram screenshots instead of Real Locations.

May 11 2025: This tutorial uses Real Locations for capturing Instagram. The success rate for capturing Instagram with this method has recently gone down (~60% success rate). Because of this, we recommend using the Chrome Extension instead for capturing Instagram profile screenshots.

Learn how to automate taking screenshots of your Instagram page with PagePixels.

Introduction

PagePixels is a screenshot tool that can automate the process of taking screenshots of web pages, including Instagram.

PagePixels is free to start, and this tutorial demonstrates how to capture an Instagram profile page on a daily schedule.

Example

How to take screenshots of your Instagram profile page

To take daily recurring screenshots of your Instagram profile page:

1

Create a screenshot

Log in to your PagePixels account, and click the +Create Screenshot button.

2

Set your schedule

By default, recurring screenshots are taken every 5 minutes.

For a daily screenshot, use the input and dropdown fields to change the default values to: 1 Days

3

Add URL

Copy and paste a link to your Instagram's profile page into the Website URL to Capture field.

4

Use Real Locations

PagePixels Real Locations can help capture websites that are accessible to you, but blocked to PagePixels' default servers.

In this case - to screenshot an Instagram page, you can set the Location field to:

USA
5

Increase "Time to Wait" value

Because Instagram can take a long time to load, we recommend increasing the Time to wait value from 1500 to 8000 (value is in milliseconds).

If the images are still not fully loaded, you can increase this value further (max is 20000).

6

Add custom CSS (optional)

PagePixels' CSS injection feature is useful for customizing the style of a web page before taking a screenshot.

In this case - to remove the login banner element from Instagram, you can use the CSS:

.x1h0vfkc, div[role="dialog"], .xoegz02, body > div.x1n2onr6.xzkaem6{
display: none !important;
}
7

Save Screenshot

Click the green Save Screenshot button (top-right).

Your screenshot automation is officially set, and your first screenshot will be taken shortly.

What else can PagePixels do?

When you automate screenshots of your Instagram with PagePixels, you can also:

  • Schedule your Instagram screenshots by time interval, days of the week, time of day, and time zone using PagePixels' built-in scheduling system.
  • Use an Embed URL to always display the latest scheduled screenshot of your Instagram in your website, data visualization tool, presentation app, and more.
  • Post your scheduled screenshots to a Slack channel, a Custom Webhook address, or upload the images to your Dropbox account, with PagePixels built-in integrations.
  • Automate perfoming a set of user actions (click, press enter, input text) on Instagram all before taking a screenshot with Multi-Step Screenshot functionality.
  • Take, send, and save screenshots of the web to thousands of services with our Zapier or Make (Integromat) integrations.
  • Customize the look of your Instagram page in your screenshot with PagePixels' Custom CSS injection feature.
  • Use PagePixels' Screenshots API to programmatically take scheduled and instant screenshots of online content around the web.
  • Have AI compare and contrast your Instragram images with the Multiple Image AI Analysis endpoint of our Screenshot API (powered by OpenAI - creator of ChatGPT).

See what else PagePixels can do for you on our Features page →

Support

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support-tickets@pagepixels.com

Or send us a message through our Support page.