Developer Builds Free Open-Source Tool to Archive and Search Instagram Saved Posts Locally

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A developer named Mahmoud Madi has released Unlockt, a free, MIT-licensed, open-source tool designed to solve the limitations of Instagram's native saved posts feature. The tool combines a Manifest V3 Chromium browser extension with a local Node.js Express dashboard, allowing users to search, organize, and preserve their saved Instagram content entirely on their own device. Unlockt can extract individual slides from carousel posts, generate high-resolution collage moodboards, and stream saved Reels locally using HTTP 206 byte-range headers without loading full video files into memory. Unlike third-party Instagram downloaders, it does not require users to enter their credentials, instead using existing authenticated browser session tokens with randomized delays to avoid rate-limit violations. All saved media, metadata, and thumbnails are stored locally on the user's filesystem, with the project's source code publicly available on GitHub.

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