OwnYourGram will check for photos posted to your Instagram account and send them to your website via Micropub.
UPDATE: This is very likely a dead project at this point. Instagram has been working hard to prevent any form of automated requests, and I have not yet found a good workaround. It will pretty much immediately fail running it as a centralized service like I have been doing, it's possible you may have some luck with your own installation of it, but even then I am not confident enough to continue putting work into this.
The best way to avoid the global rate limits that apply to the hosted instance at ownyourgram.com is to run your own copy of OwnYourGram. You can run it on your own server, or even run it on a laptop.
Please ensure you have the following installed before configuring OwnYourGram.
- PHP 7
- Composer
- MySQL
- Optional: Redis
Redis is optional, but highly recommended. Using Redis enables OwnYourGram to cache Instagram responses and also enables adapting to Instagram's rate limits. Without it, OwnYourGram will make more requests to Instagram and will be more likely to get rate limited.
Clone this project into a folder:
git clone https://github.com/aaronpk/OwnYourGram.git
Install the dependencies:
cd OwnYourGram
composer install
Copy the config.template.php file to config.php and fill out the values.
cp lib/config.template.php lib/config.php
$hostname- set to the hostname you've configured to serve this app. Uselocalhostif using the built-in PHP server.$ssl-trueorfalsedepending on whether you access OwnYourGram overhttps$gaid- If you want to use Google Analytics, set your Google Analytics tracking ID here$newUsersAllowed-trueorfalse- the first time you set this up, ensure it's set totrueso that you can log in. If you want to lock down your installation to only existing users, set this tofalseand no new users will be able to log in.$redis-falseortcp://127.0.0.1:6379- if you have Redis enabled, the performance of OwnYourGram will be improved$cacheIGRequests-trueorfalse- enable caching for better performance$xray-falseor the hostname of an XRay service - Setting this tofalsewill cause OwnYourGram to fetch Instagram pages directly. This is best if you are running this on a laptop. If you're running it on a cloud server, you may want to run an external XRay service in case Instagram is blocking the IP address of your server.$igCookie-falseor your Instagram session cookie - setting this to a cookie will cause all requests to Instagram to be made with this cookie. This can be helpful to get around some rate limits, but may put the account at risk of getting flagged as a bot.$db- the configuration for your MySQL database
Create the database and a database user:
mysql -u root
CREATE DATABASE ownyourgram;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ownyourgram.* TO 'ownyourgram'@'127.0.0.1' IDENTIFIED BY 'ownyourgram';
exit
Create the tables:
mysql -u ownyourgram -pownyourgram < schema/schema.sql
Configure a web server to serve the public folder of this project, or use the built-in PHP server.
Ensure you have something like the following in a server block for OwnYourGram, and that nginx is configured to handle PHP files.
...
root /web/OwnYourGram/public;
try_files $uri /index.php?$args;
...
cd public
php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 router.php
Now you can visit the app and log in! The first time you log in it will prompt you to connect an Instagram account.
Configure a cron task to run every minute. Rate limiting is checked in the cron job. You'll need to enable this cron job to have OwnYourGram keep your photos up to date automatically. If you only want to manually import from the web interface then you don't need this.
* * * * * /usr/bin/php /web/sites/ownyourgram.com/scripts/ownyourgram-cron.php
- 0 - account disabled. will only be re-enabled after the user signs in.
- 1 - daily
- 2 - every 6 hours
- 3 - every hour
- 4 - every 15 minutes
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Copyright 2013-2019 by Aaron Parecki
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
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