How to Delete All Your Instagram Content (and why I did just that)

How to Delete All Your Instagram Content Quickly and Easily

1. Install the "Kantu Browser Automation" extension for Google Chrome
2. Create a new macro by clicking the "+ Macro" button in the upper left
3. Switch to "Source View (JSON)"
4. Paste this code into the JSON field.

{
  "CreationDate": "2018-7-14",
  "Commands": [
    {
      "Command": "open",
      "Target": "https://www.instagram.com/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/",
      "Value": ""
    },
    {
      "Command": "click",
      "Target": "//*[@id=\"react-root\"]/section/main/div/div[3]/article/div[1]/div/div[1]/div[1]/a/div/div[2]",
      "Value": ""
    },
    {
      "Command": "click",
      "Target": "//*[@id=\"react-root\"]/section/main/div/div/article/div[3]/button/span",
      "Value": ""
    },
    {
      "Command": "pause",
      "Target": "250",
      "Value": ""
    },
    {
      "Command": "click",
      "Target": "/html/body/div[5]/div/div/div/div/button[1]",
      "Value": ""
    },
    {
      "Command": "pause",
      "Target": "250",
      "Value": ""
    },
    {
      "Command": "click",
      "Target": "/html/body/div[5]/div/div/div/div[2]/button[1]",
      "Value": ""
    }
  ]
}

5. Replace the string "YOURUSERNAMEHERE" with your Instagram username.
6. Save the macro
7. Hover over the drop-down next to "Play Macro" and choose "Play Loop" (Enter in a value like "500")
8. Then sit back and watch your content get removed from your Instagram profile.

Why I Deleted All of My Instagram Content

I've been posting less and less over the past few years and I finally decided that my personal Instagram feed was only giving me short-lived gratification and feeding my selfish tendencies.  To help reduce my temptation to post and to start fresh, with the intention of never posting on Instagram again, I decided to delete all of my content. I did backup all of my content locally first, so I had a personal copy of all of my content from the past 5 years.