Export Instagram Photos: A Few Good Tools

You may feel uneasy about the revised Instagram's Terms of Service and have decided to terminate your account. Or you don't give a damn because it's the community, stupid! Either way, it may be wise to export (and archive) all your beautifully filtered Instagram photos to another site. Here are three easy-to-use tools to do just that:

OpenPhoto is an open source tool enables you to export all Instagram photos into your existing storage account i.e. Dropbox, Box, CX.com, Amazon S3, or DreamHost DreamObjects. You can even install the software in your own server or hosting account. Check out its GitHub page.

With Instaport, you can download all Instagram photos as a .zip file. This one is recommended by Instagram. In the coming months, this tool will allow you to export your photos from Instagram to other social services like Facebook and Flikr.

At the moment, the site is in high demand (may be partially due to the new Instagram's ToS). The site is displaying: We are expecting high traffic right now. If you have problems downloading your photos, please try again tomorrow or the next days.

Compared to OpenPhoto and Instaport, Snapjoy is the most user-friendly and well-designed. It is probably the best least well-known online photos storage in the market today. In addition to Instagram, you can also import photos from your Flickr and Picasa accounts. It comes with nifty features like beautiful timeline organizer for photos, random photo shuffler, and private / public shares.

Each user account comes with free 5GB capacity and option to increase it incrementally via actions i.e. refer friends, link to your existing Flickr, Picasa, and Instagram accounts. Users have the option to upgrade to bigger storage plans - 50 / 100 / 200GB.

UPDATE: Snapjoy has been acquired by Dropbox on December 19, 2012. It is no longer accepting new users.