Instagram Data Download Viewer
See who doesn't follow you back on Instagram. Read, search and print every chat.
- What it reads:
- Followers
- Following
- Messages
- Message requests
- In Settings, open Accounts Center, then Your information and permissions.
- Choose Export your information, then Create export, then Export to device.
- Set Date range to All time and start it. Instagram emails you when it's ready.
What you can view with this free tool
Do even more with Redact Premium
Redact unsends the messages you sent and unfollows accounts you follow. Premium does all eight, and posts, reels and carousels are free for your last 30 days.
- Delete your DMsEvery message you've sent, or only those to certain people.
- Delete your postsAll of your posts at once, or filtered by keyword or date.
- Delete your reelsClear your Reels in bulk, across the dates you choose.
- Delete carouselsClear your carousel and album posts in a single run.
- Mass unfollowEveryone you follow, or only those who don't follow back.
- Remove your likesTake your like back off posts, by date or by account.
- Delete saved collectionsClear collections by name. The posts inside stay saved.
- Delete by date rangeSet a start date, an end date, or both, for the run.
Questions
Made by Redact. Not made by, or affiliated with, Instagram or Meta.
See who doesn't follow you back
Your download has your followers and everyone you follow. The viewer holds the two lists against each other, with no login and no password, and tells you how many files and accounts it read so you can check the count against the numbers shown on your profile.
- Who doesn't follow you back, who you don't follow back, and who's on both lists
- Every follower file read and joined
- Search, sort by date or name, copy the usernames or save a CSV
Read a chat from its first message
Every chat in the download, busiest first, with how many messages it holds and how many are yours. Open one and it starts at the first message, which Instagram's own pages make you scroll for. A chat that Instagram split across several files reads as one.
- Every chat, message requests included
- Oldest or newest first, with the sender and time on every message
- Emoji and all languages, as typed
Find what you said, and keep a copy
Look up a name, an address or a phone number across everything at once. Each match opens the chat it came from. When you need a chat on paper, pick the days, see how many pages it comes to, and print it or save it as a PDF through your browser.
- One search across every chat
- Print a chat or save it as a PDF
- Download any chat or list as a CSV table
See when the talking happens
The same messages, laid out by time and by person. See which hours your chats are busiest and who you write to most. Every chart can be switched to another view or to a plain table of all the numbers behind the chart.
- Messages by month, by hour and by day of the week, yours in the darker shade
- Who you talk to most, and how much of every chat you wrote yourself
- The first message, the busiest day and the longest run of days
How it works
Three steps. Whichever format Instagram gave you, it opens.
Built to stay on your device
A download is who you follow and every chat you've had. It's treated that way.
Instagram data downloads: FAQ
On a computer, open Instagram, click More, then Settings, then Accounts Center. Open Your information and permissions, then Export your information, and click Create export. Pick your Instagram profile and Export to device. Set Date range to All time, then click Start export. Download the files when Instagram says the export is ready.
Either one opens here. Instagram starts you on HTML, and if that's what you already have, there's no need to ask for another. JSON is the more exact of the two, since it records the second each message was sent. HTML writes its times to the minute with no time zone, so they're shown as Instagram wrote them and can be some hours off your own clock, depending on where you are.
Yes. Your download has your followers and everyone you follow as two lists. The viewer holds one against the other and shows who you follow that doesn't follow you, who follows you that you don't follow, and who's on both. It never signs in to Instagram, so there's no password to hand over.
Yes. The viewer combines multiple follower files and counts each account once. It shows the number of files and accounts it read, so you can compare the total with your profile. Include every follower file to compare the full lists.
The viewer compares the followers and following lists in your download. It doesn't compare earlier downloads, so it can't tell you who stopped following you.
The viewer can't recover messages that aren't in your download. It shows readable messages from the chat files it supports, and it reports how many message rows it couldn't read. Attachments are named but aren't opened or shown. Secret conversations aren't read.
Yes. A download files chats under more than one folder, and message requests are one of them. The viewer reads every folder of chats it finds, marks which one each chat came from, and lets you narrow the list to one folder at a time, such as only your inbox or only your message requests.
The viewer reads several follower file formats in JSON and HTML, including files with usernames in titles or tables. If a file contains entries but none can be read, the viewer reports the file as unreadable. When only some entries can be read, the viewer includes them without reporting the skipped entries.
Instagram's JSON files write emoji and any letter outside plain English in a broken way, so a heart or a name in Korean turns into a string of odd symbols. The viewer puts them right as it reads, so every message shows exactly the way it was first typed, whatever language it's in.
Yes. Open the chat and go to Print this chat. Choose the days you want, or leave them empty for the whole chat, and the viewer tells you how many messages and roughly how many pages that is before anything prints. Then your browser's own print box opens, where you can pick a printer or Save as PDF. You can also download the chat as a CSV table that opens in any spreadsheet.
No. Where a photo, video, voice message or reel was sent, the viewer writes a word saying so. It doesn't open them, which also means it never has to load the largest part of your download.
Drop them all in at once. The viewer opens each ZIP and puts the parts together. If you already unzipped them, press Choose the unzipped folder and pick the folder that holds them. A single file taken out of the download, like followers_1.json, opens by itself too, with no ZIP needed.
A limited date range can leave older entries out of the download. Set Date range to All time. If the download came in several ZIPs, make sure you have every one. The viewer shows how many follower files it read and which lists it couldn't find. It reports gaps between numbered follower files, but it can't detect a missing file after the last number it received.
No. Your browser reads the file where it sits on your device. No part of it is sent to Redact or to anyone else, which you can confirm by turning off your internet connection after the page loads and opening the download anyway, which works exactly the same offline.
Redact can mass unfollow on Instagram, or only the accounts that don't follow you back, and keep the ones you choose. It also unsends the messages you've sent and deletes your posts, reels and carousels.
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