instagram_public_api

Instagram Public API client

A client/scraper/crawler for the public Instagram API. The client comes with handy methods such as passing a limit. The client will then proceed and crawl more data as required. Advanced configuration can be done using an http proxy.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'instagram_public_api'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install instagram_public_api

Usage

Get media for a location:

InstagramPublicApi::Client.new.location_media("263928560", limit: 100, request_parameters: {})

Get media for a hashtag:

InstagramPublicApi::Client.new.hashtag_media("raccoon", limit: 100, request_parameters: {})

Advanced configuration

You can configure an HTTP Proxy in case you would like the requests to be done via an external service.

InstagramPublicApi.proxy_uri      = "http://foo"
InstagramPublicApi.proxy_user     = "ubuntu"
InstagramPublicApi.proxy_password = "mycrazypassword"

This proxy config will be used as the default proxy configuration for all following requests. When creating a client, you can pass an optional http_service with different proxy options as needed.

opts = {
  uri: "http://customuri.com",
  user: "customuser",
  password: "custom-password",
}
service = InstagramPublicApi::HTTPService.new(proxy_config: opts)
client  = InstagramPublicApi::Client.new(http_service: service)

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/hendricius/instagram_public_api.