How to Delete All Your Instagram Content (and why I did just that)
Jul, 14 2018

How to Delete All Your Instagram Content Quickly and Easily
- Install the "Kantu Browser Automation" extension for Google Chrome
- Create a new macro by clicking the "+ Macro" button in the upper left
- Switch to "Source View (JSON)"
- Paste this code into the JSON field.
- Replace the string "YOURUSERNAMEHERE" with your Instagram username.
- Save the macro
- Hover over the drop-down next to "Play Macro" and choose "Play Loop" (Enter in a value like "500")
- Then sit back and watch your content get removed from your Instagram profile.
{ "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": "" } ] }
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.