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I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. (codeberg.org)
submitted 1 month ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Inspired by nitter.

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[–] kumi@feddit.online 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Cool! Keeping up with platform changes is a challenge for projects like this. I think to be successful beyond initial popularity you need an active community that can do this together. It's draining for just one person - especially once you get big enough that they might actively break things just to mess with your integration. Following maintenance of alternative YouTube clients as well as searx-ng is illustrative.

Not to discourage but be prepared. Best of luck!

https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-09-01-discontinuing-bibliogram

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago

I've already read that article, the situation on Instagram has changed a bit, which makes scraping easier.

Ratelimits are still a problem if you don't have a residential IP, but I have a workaround for that (which I'm hesitant to share publicly).

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Awesome! Got it running and seems to work well. Also I love the CLAUDE.md file you got there in the repo 🐈

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm happy someone noticed it

[–] fluxx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Read it now. It made my day a bit better :)

[–] bdama@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It would be great if people could stop using Meta services and software.

[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It would be great if people stop using social media in general.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago (36 children)

Lemmy is social media

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[–] BigBolillo@mgtowlemmy.org 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Isn't it better to stop using Instagram at all? Insted of trying self-hosted shenanigans..

[–] dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

its better to quit heroin, but safe injection sites are good for public health

[–] BigBolillo@mgtowlemmy.org 4 points 1 month ago

Still easier to uninstall an app than dealing with abstinence syndrome.. but if you think beyond that stop watching asses on the internet is like stop doing heroin. So finally I think what you say is fair.

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 7 points 1 month ago

I'm not "using" Instagram actively, but sometimes I want to see a public profile and it doesn't let me. Didn't check this out yet but if it doesn't need a login it could help with this

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't use Twitter nor insta, but sometimes I get shared a link and nitter handy to check it out without an account. So I applaud this

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

This is how I use front end apps. Other than the data contained in the posts, I have no interest in Insta, FB, et al. Similar to how I use RedLib for Reddit because, despite Reddit turning into a cesspool, there are still some great technical subs that contain valuable info. Interacting on Reddit tho, is a hard pass.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

This doesn't let you interact with Instagram, it just lets you view profiles/posts

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

Nice. After Bilbogram was discontinued, I believe we all were waiting for an replacement.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why? Fuck Instagram.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I made this because I hate Instagram, but there's still lots of valid reasons to use it.

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[–] Harald_im_Netz@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On the one side, you're absolutely right. On the other hand, people around us are still using it, especially Musicians and Artists. If I want to find out some concert dates or check the mail of a tattoo artist I like, sometimes I have no other option than checking Instagram, despite killing the artist of my list – which I do not want to :-)

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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago

awesome! i hope this stays around.

would be nice if it also saved/archived everything it downloads from instagram and sends it to the internet archive

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just don't get a court order by Meta like the other dude that created a front-end for Instagram. Can't remember the name since it was before the pandemic. There was a lot of news about it in the FOSS community.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Barinsta was a full client, not just a simple frontend.

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

That was the name! And yes, you're right. It was a full client.

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Obviously I'm not a lawyer but I don't see what law they could use to shut it down. All it's doing is accessing publicly available data via a proxy. It's not like it's exploiting Instagram somehow.

If they wanna stop it, they can do what Twitter did and start requiring an account to see almost anything. Personally I suspect Meta is slowly going towards that.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Codeberg is down, what's the URL?

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

looks great! Thank you for making this

[–] reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It would be cool if this was ActivityPub compatible so we could follow Instagram from Mastodon. As much as I hate meta, there are some artists I would like to follow still

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or even if it could provide RSS feeds of accounts, for following in a RSS reader.

Though excellent work!

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would like to add RSS, I don't think it's feasible https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-09-01-discontinuing-bibliogram

A much-requested feature I added early on was RSS feeds. This ended up getting quickly turned off for the main instance, because RSS usage was dwarfing interactive usage. Many of these feeds had been added to people's readers and forgotten about. Even today I still receive a decent number of forgotten requests for feeds — these forgotten feeds haven't returned useful data for more than two years. Feed requests aren't free. Bibliogram needs to make an outgoing web request, wait for it, and convert the response data. This also uses up a piece of Bibliogram's rate limit to Instagram, even if nobody's there to see the feed that Bibliogram generates.

I could add it, but have it disabled by default, so anyone hosting a personal instance can enable it.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 points 1 month ago

Being able to set up personally hosted RSS feeds would be useful. If the feeds are fetched periodically, that could also allow archiving of accounts.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Doing the lords work, thank you

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Awesome work!

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure Bibliogram was inspired by Nitter before it became deprecated. Hope to see this flourish.

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