How to Download Videos Linked Inside Instagram Guides as MP4

Instagram Guides are curated collections: a creator bundles posts, places, or products around one theme — workout routines, travel itineraries, product roundups. The videos inside a Guide are regular Instagram posts, each with its own link. With xi you download them one by one as clean MP4 files: open the post from the Guide, copy its link, and save it free without login.

Download in 4 steps

1. Open the Guide and tap a video post. In the Instagram app or on instagram.com, open the Guide and tap any video or reel inside it to open that post on its own page.
2. Copy the post link. Tap the share icon (paper plane) on the post, then Copy link. Each post in the Guide has its own individual URL — that is what xi needs.
3. Paste it into xi. Go to apiproai.com and paste the post link into the download box.
4. Download the MP4 and repeat. Save each video you want from the Guide the same way, one link at a time. Every download is free.

What Guides are — and what they are not

Think of an Instagram Guide as a playlist of posts. A fitness coach might gather twelve reels into a “30-day challenge” Guide; a travel blogger might bundle hotel tours into a city Guide. The Guide page shows previews, but every video still lives on its original post. Deleting the Guide does not delete the posts, and downloading from a Guide means downloading those underlying posts.

This is actually convenient for archiving themed collections. Work through a workout Guide reel by reel, save each MP4 with xi, and you end up with the full program offline — immune to the creator reorganizing or deleting the Guide later.

There is an accessibility bonus to downloading Guide videos that few people consider: the MP4 plays in any video app, including ones with better playback controls than Instagram — variable speed, frame stepping, and proper subtitles. Students working through a tutorial Guide get more from the downloaded files than from tapping through Instagram’s player.

And a word for creators: if your Guide is the product — a paid course outline, a coaching program — remember that individual posts are downloadable by anyone. Guides organize content; they do not protect it. Price and share accordingly, and keep your truly exclusive material behind a real paywall.

One link at a time: how xi handles Guides

To be clear about how xi works: it downloads a single video per link. There is no bulk mode that swallows a whole Guide at once — paste each post’s link separately. For a twelve-video Guide that means twelve quick pastes, each taking seconds. It is manual but reliable, and every file keeps its original quality with no watermark.

The standard rules apply: posts must be public, private-account posts cannot be fetched without login, and downloads are for personal use. If a Guide mixes in posts from private accounts, those particular links will fail while the public ones download fine — xi tells you which is which instead of failing silently.

Guides are also a quiet SEO and discovery tool on Instagram: a well-organized Guide keeps followers browsing a creator’s back catalog instead of bouncing after one reel. When you download the videos from a Guide you admire, you are effectively building your own offline curriculum — a workout plan, a language course, a cooking series — that no algorithm reshuffle can scatter.

Educators take note: if you build Guides for students, tell them to save the individual posts they need. Guides can be edited or deleted at any time, and students who relied on the Guide link alone lose access. A downloaded MP4, by contrast, works in the classroom with no internet at all.

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