In this short lecture I would like to show you how can you download the public stories of a snapshot
account?
So we have already gathered the URL of Rishi Kabra Snapchat account.
I'm going to copy it and open it in a new tab so we can see some information.
We can see a profile picture if we right click on it and then click on Open Image a new tab, we can
see that the image is very small and it's not helpful if we would like to search for it on search engines,
which is something that we will cover in a future section.
Another information that we can find, which is the location.
We can see that he is in Chennai, India and we already know this by looking at his Facebook account
and his LinkedIn account.
We can also see a description or biography and some stories.
So in this lecture I'm just going to focus on how we can download the stories because there is nothing
else we can do.
So the first method that I'm going to show you to download all the stories is to right click somewhere
and then click on inspect.
And then you want to go to a network and then you will select media.
And now I'm going to play all the stories that I found.
For example I'm going to play this one.
And now we have got the URL of this video.
And now I'm going to click on this video.
And this video consists of multiple stories.
So let me wait a little bit.
And now we have another story.
We can wait for it.
Or we can click in here to get the URLs.
And then I can click on this video or this photo to get the URL.
And then I can go to spotlight and click in here and here to get the URL.
Now we have all the URLs of the videos.
And then I can click on any link to view the video.
So I'm going to save this video right mouse click and then save video as.
And then I'm going to save it.
Now let me play it, as you can see.
And we can also see the time which was at 9:00, 48 minutes in the evening.
Now, the problem is that we cannot see at which time this video or this story were made.
So there is another method to view the metadata of this story, which is by going to a website called
Snapchat Story Downloader.
So all I have to do is just to copy the URL of the profile and then go to this website, add the link
and then click on search.
And with this website, you'll be able to download all the pictures and videos that are public.
For example I'm going to download this one.
We can see the date but we cannot see the time.
I'm going to download it from this website.
And when we download it you will see the username first and then the time when this story were made.
We can also see at which time it were made public.
Now since we know that he is from Kolkata, I'm going to convert this time from UTC to the time in Kolkata.
So here is a website called Savvy Time that will allow me to convert the time from UTC to the time in
Kolkata, and all I have to do, just to add at which time this story were published.
So I'm going to add the time which is at 4:00 and 20 minutes UTC time, and we can see that it was at
9:00 and 50 minutes in the evening in Kolkata.
So let me come back to the video.
We can see that this screenshot or this video was also made at 9:00 and 48 minutes.
So I assume he took the video first and then opened the app and then publish it on Snapchat, which
might took him two minutes.
Another thing that I would like to show you is that if you have this link, which I'll put in the resources
of this lecture, you can replace the username in here with the target username to get his Snapchat
code.
So I'm going to replace it with Rishi.
Cobra 132.
And then copy the link and then open a new tab and paste it, and then hit enter.
And here is the snapcode of this person and I can save it if I want to.
Now this will give us an ID how the person looks like, because there are many people who like to create
their avatars.
And in case we don't know how the person looks like, then this might give us an ID when we try to search
for a person on Facebook or Instagram, etc. so we know that they have a beard and they wear glasses
and they have long hair, etc. so in this lecture you have learned how you can download public stories
on any Snapchat account manually and automatically, just in case the website got shut down and how
you can extract the metadata.
If this was important for you, just in case you want to present this as an evidence in a court, you
have also learned how you can find or extract the snapcode of any Snapchat account.