# Plugin idea to import an Instagram Archive into Kirby

**URL:** <https://forum.getkirby.com/t/plugin-idea-to-import-an-instagram-archive-into-kirby/10351>\
**Category:** Plugins\
**Tags:** idea\
**Created:** [May 5, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/plugin-idea-to-import-an-instagram-archive-into-kirby/10351 "2018-05-05T17:47:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![yves](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/yves/32/6585_2.png) [@yves](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/yves)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/plugin-idea-to-import-an-instagram-archive-into-kirby/10351/1 "2018-05-05T17:47:53Z")

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Unfortunately this is outside of my skill set, but maybe I can inspire some skilled plugin coder to write such a thing:

Recently Micro.blog for Mac got a feature to import an exported Instagram Archive into a Micro.blog blog. Please see Manton’s writeup here:

[http://www.manton.org/2018/05/instagram-import-in-micro-blog.html](http://www.manton.org/2018/05/instagram-import-in-micro-blog.html)

For those who don’t know, you can now export all photos, comments, profile information and more from Instagram:

[https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/24/instagram-export/](https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/24/instagram-export/)

It would be nice to have something similar for Kirby, where I can point a future Kirby plugin to the Instagram export directory and it crunches through all photos while maintaining the captions etc.

I know not everybody is as sensible as I am to the latest brouhaha at Facebook & Co., but I think the little bit more self-control about your photos on a Kirby website would make the world a better place.

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**Author:** ![texnixe](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/texnixe/32/5754_2.png) [@texnixe](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/texnixe)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/plugin-idea-to-import-an-instagram-archive-into-kirby/10351/2 "2018-05-05T18:05:51Z")

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Looks like what you get is a media.json file so it shouldn’t be a big thing to import it into Kirby. I have never had an Instagram account, so I can’t have a look.