This is a tree driver for the Instagram Basic Display API.
Authentication with the Instagram API is even more tiresome than with most services.
See Instagram's Getting Started page for an overview and a walkthrough of creating an application and obtaining an Instagram "short-lived access token". Then follow the steps to get a long-lived access token.
At the end of that process, you should have an access token (a string of letters and numbers) that you can save in a file.
Bear in mind that (as of August 2024) even a "long-lived" Instagram token will only be good for 60 days.
- Use npm to install the main
@weborigami/origamipackage and this@weborigami/instagramextension. - Obtain an access token (above).
- Save the access token in a file called
token. - Add the name of that
tokenfile to.gitignoreso that your token will not be stored in source control.
With that, you can then use the Origami CLI to display a list of your top-level Instagram albums, images, and videos:
$ ori "@keys package:@weborigami/instagram(token)"Each top-level file or folder will have a name with the item's date and time.
You can copy a top-level image (or video) locally:
$ ori "package:@weborigami/instagram(token)/<imageName>" > fileName.jpgYou can ask ori to display a list of the images in an album with a given name:
$ ori "@keys package:@weborigami/instagram(token)/<albumName>"You can copy an album locally with:
$ ori "@copy package:@weborigami/instagram(token)/<albumName>, @files/album"This will create a folder called album containing copies of all the images and videos in the indicated album.
You can archive your whole Instagram profile to a folder called archive with:
$ ori "@copy package:@weborigami/instagram(token), @files/archive"