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		heap_perms 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and str... AFAIK you need a username to be able to extract anything from instagram at all.

Marsymars 4 months ago [–]

You don't, I don't have an IG account but my wife occasionally sends me links to reels that I use yt-dlp to download.

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