Your Instagram data download, file by file.

Followers and following

• connections/followers_and_following/followers_1.json — everyone who follows you, with the date they followed. Big accounts get followers_2.json, followers_3.json… — they belong together.
• following.json — every account you follow, with the date you followed it.
• close_friends.json — your Close Friends list.
• pending_follow_requests.json — requests you sent to private accounts that were never accepted.
• follow_requests_you've_received.json — people waiting for you to accept them.
• recently_unfollowed_profiles.json — accounts you unfollowed recently (not who unfollowed you).
• blocked_profiles.json, restricted_profiles.json, hide_story_from.json — your block, restrict and hidden-story lists.

Comparing two downloads of these files is how you can see who unfollowed you.

Your activity

• likes/liked_posts.json — every post you liked, with the account and the date.
• comments/post_comments_1.json and reels_comments.json — every comment you wrote and where.
• story_likes.json — stories you liked.
• saved/saved_posts.json — your saved posts.
• recent_searches files — what you searched for.

Search all of them at once in the Likes & comments finder.

Your messages

• messages/inbox/<name>_<number>/message_1.json — one folder per conversation; long chats continue in message_2.json and so on. Photos, videos and voice notes sit in the same folder.

The texts use an escaped encoding, so emojis and accents look broken in a text editor. The Message viewer shows every chat like a messenger.

Your posts, stories and reels

• media/posts_1.json (older exports: content/posts_1.json) — your posts with captions and dates.
• media/stories.json, reels.json, archived_posts.json, profile_photos.json.
• The photos and videos themselves, in media/ folders by month.

Browse them as a gallery in Posts & stories.

Ads and privacy

• advertisers_using_your_activity_or_information.json — companies that uploaded a customer list that matched you, or target you by your activity.
• ads_interests.json / your_topics.json — the interests Instagram assigned to you.
• ads_viewed.json, posts_viewed.json, videos_watched.json — what you saw.
• login_activity.json — when and from which devices and IP addresses you logged in.

The Privacy X-ray turns these into an exposure grade from A to F.

JSON or HTML?

Both contain the same information. JSON is easier for tools to read reliably; HTML is meant for reading in a browser. Unwrapped reads both — drop the ZIP as it is, even in several parts.

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