How to Bulk Download Instagram Reels from Any Profile

Bulk downloading Instagram Reels comes down to a three-move sequence in desktop Chrome: sort the profile's Reels by performance with the FeedRama extension, select every Reel you want, and download the batch in one go. No URL lists, no paste-the-link marathons, no scraper scripts — the whole thing happens on the instagram.com page you already have open.

If you've ever tried assembling a competitor's best twenty Reels by hand, you know why this matters. Below: the exact steps, how to choose a batch intelligently, where the free plan's limits sit, and the honest comparison with other approaches.

Why "sort first" changes everything

Most bulk-download guides skip the hardest part of the job: deciding what to download. A profile with 400 Reels sorted chronologically tells you nothing about which ones worked. Instagram won't show you someone else's analytics — but public engagement counts are right there on every post, and sorting by them turns any profile into a ranked report.

FeedRama's Instagram feed sorting reorders a profile's Reels by views, likes, or comments in place. Suddenly "download their best stuff" isn't a judgment call; it's the top row of the grid. That step is what separates a research library from a folder of random clips. (For the analysis side of this, see How to Find a Creator's Best-Performing Instagram Reels.)

Step-by-step: batch-saving Reels

1. Add FeedRama to Chrome. Install it free from the Chrome Web Store. It works on desktop Chrome only — worth knowing before you try this on a tablet.
2. Open the profile's Reels on instagram.com. Any public account: a competitor, an inspiration account, or your own.
3. Sort by the metric that matters. Views for reach, likes for resonance, comments for conversation-starters. The grid reorders instantly.
4. Multi-select your batch. Tick each Reel you want. Ten, twenty, more — the selection carries through to the next step.
5. Download everything at once. One click, and each Reel saves to your computer as a full-quality MP4 with its audio. Your download history keeps a local record of the batch.

If you only need a single Reel, the simpler walkthrough is in How to Download Instagram Reels to Your Computer — same extension, fewer steps.

Free plan vs. Pro for bulk work

We'd rather set expectations here than surprise you in the extension. The free plan gives you unlimited sorting within a window — the profile's previous 25 posts or the previous week — and 10 downloads a month. That's a real trial of the workflow, but "bulk" work tends to blow past it quickly.

For a one-time archive of a small account, free may genuinely be enough. For ongoing competitor tracking or deep back-catalog dives, Pro pays for itself in the first session.

Three bulk workflows we see most

The competitor teardown. Sort a rival's Reels by views, download the top fifteen, and study them properly — pacing, hooks, captions, CTAs. Pair the batch with FeedRama's downloader history so every file traces back to its source post.

The self-archive. Your Reels live on Instagram's servers at Instagram's pleasure. Sorting your own profile by date and batch-downloading everything gives you a local copy — the cheapest insurance policy in content marketing.

The data-plus-footage pull. Analysts often need the numbers more than the videos. After sorting, Pro's CSV export captures URL, date, likes, views, comments, shares, saves, and captions for every post in the range — the spreadsheet workflow is covered in How to Export Instagram Post Data to CSV.

Can't you just script this?

You can. Developer tools and scraping platforms will happily pull Reels at scale, and if you need ten thousand videos on a nightly cron job, that's the right hammer. The costs are real though: setup time, maintenance when Instagram's markup shifts, usage-based pricing, and terms-of-service gray zones that get grayer the more aggressive the automation. For the common case — a person who needs dozens of Reels, chosen by performance, occasionally — a browser extension does the job with zero code and keeps you inside a normal browsing session.

Quality, audio, and file handling

Two questions come up constantly with batches, so let's settle them. Quality: every Reel in a batch downloads as the same original-quality MP4 you'd get saving it alone — nothing is compressed to speed up the pass, and trending audio comes through attached to each file. File handling: the batch lands in your browser's normal download location, and FeedRama's history keeps a local record linking each file to its source post. That last part matters more than it sounds; three weeks into a project, "which account did this clip come from?" is the question that kills momentum, and a logged history answers it in seconds instead of a reverse-search spiral.

Republishing rules, briefly

Batch size doesn't change the copyright math. Public Reels downloaded for private study, research, or your own backups: fine. Reposting someone else's Reel — one or fifty — without permission: not fine, and Instagram's terms agree. Credit creators, ask before you republish, and leave private accounts alone.

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