Current running Instagram Plugin

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Hello there

is there currently a running Instagram Plugin out there?
I am used this here:
https://github.com/bastianallgeier/Instagram-Kirby-Plugin

But my response is empty.
As the plugin is now 6 years old, maybe there is something out there that is running better?

Thank you

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Instagram changed something in their API and lots of plugins don’t work anymore. Not just Kirby plugins, also most Javascript solutions.
I noticed this when I wanted to display the latest 10 images by tag on this client project.

The only one that worked for me was this PHP solution: https://github.com/postaddictme/instagram-php-scraper
With a very simple plugin I registered a route that gets used for a cron job. I then get the posts from the json file via Javascript. Maybe this helps you getting started?

kirby()->routes(array(  
    array(
      'pattern' => 'api/checkInstagram', 
      'action'  => function() {
        $cacheFile = __DIR__ . "/assets/instagram.json";
        $instagram = \InstagramScraper\Instagram::withCredentials('user', 'password');
        $instagram->login();
        $medias = $instagram->getMediasByTag('koenigskanzel', 10);
        $array = array();
        foreach ($medias as $media) {          
          array_push($array, array(
            $media->getLink(),
            $media->getSquareThumbnailsUrl()[1]
          ));
        }
        $json = json_encode($array);
        $fh = fopen($cacheFile, 'w');
        fwrite($fh, $json);
        fclose($fh);
      }
    )
  ));
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Hey @thguenther
thank you for you reply. So that seems to be my solution.
I will get for that and will let you know on here if i am possible to get our instagram Feed running.

Thank you so far!

Cheeeeers

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I did not find any good solution when I needed it for https://ekobyn.com but https://snapwidget.com works ok for free as long as you don’t click on the images.

@thguenther solution is probably better, if it works.

5

I need to click the Images :wink:

6

Then snapwidget may be a bit spammy. It has tons of ads around the image in the free plan.

7

I will try the other solution in a bit, i am stuck here with subdomains on Uberspace.

8

@thguenther MANY MANY thanks! It’s up and running!

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