A private post? The bot shows how to download it
If a post, reel or story is visible only to signed-in people, the bot now suggests connecting your account — after that it downloads such posts itself, from your phone too.
Some posts are shown only to people who are signed in: Instagram stories, private posts and reels, friends-only posts, age-restricted videos. Until now the bot only replied "not available without signing in" to such links.
What's new
The bot explains what's going on and gives you a "🔑 Connect account" button. You connect an account once — after that the bot downloads whatever you can see right in Telegram, from your phone too.
If the account is already connected but the post still didn't open, the bot suggests connecting it again: the login may have stopped working, or the account has no access to this post.
For Instagram, Facebook and TikTok there's also a second button — download the post with the browser extension on a computer.
How to connect an account
- On a computer — the "🔑 Connect your … account to the bot" button in the Videoner extension window.
- On an Android phone — with Firefox and the Cookie-Editor add-on, instructions.
- With a file — send cookies.txt to the bot.
Your connections and removing them — the /accounts command. It's better to connect a separate, non-primary account: platforms don't like automated downloads.