Photo Downloader

Paste a link to a public post and this page pulls the photo the platform publishes for it, then hands it to you as a JPG.

How this works differs from every video tool here, and that difference decides what you get. The first section explains it, because it answers most of the questions people arrive with.

This reads the post's preview image

Video tools ask the platform for a list of media streams. Photos work differently: this page reads the post's preview image — the picture the platform designates for link previews, the one you see when a post is shared into WhatsApp or a chat app.

That image is a real, full photograph, not a thumbnail. But it is the version the platform chose to publish for external use, which is not always the largest version it holds internally.

The practical consequence: what you get is the best publicly published copy of the photo, which for most posts is the same picture at a good size — and for some is smaller than the one you would see tapping through in the app. No tool reading public data can do better, and any tool claiming to extract a hidden original is describing something that is not publicly addressable.

What "full resolution" honestly means

Every platform re-compresses images on upload. A 12-megapixel phone photo posted to a social network is resized and re-encoded before anyone else ever sees it — often more than once, at different sizes for different placements.

So the ceiling is not set by this tool, it is set at the moment of upload. The original file lives on the photographer's phone and nowhere else on the public internet.

What you can reasonably expect: a clean JPG at the size the platform publishes, good enough for viewing, reposting with credit, and printing small. What you should not expect: a file suitable for large-format printing or heavy cropping. That quality was discarded before the post went live.

Albums, carousels and what fails

One image per link. A carousel or multi-photo post has a single preview image — the first one. To get a specific photo from the middle of an album, open that photo on its own so it has its own URL, then paste that.

Public posts only. Private accounts, friends-only posts and anything behind a login return nothing. There is no credential step in this tool.

Instagram and Facebook are the flaky ones. Both actively block datacentre traffic, so requests are routed through a residential proxy. It works, but expect these two to be slower and to fail more often than other sources. A retry after a moment clears most failures.

For a profile picture rather than a post image, use the Profile Picture Downloader — it targets a different image on the page.