MMM-Instagram - Pull and animate photos from Instagram feed

kapsolas

Check out my module to pull images from a users Instagram Feed. An API_KEY is required to set this up.
The images will be pulled will animate and rotate on the mirror.

The link for it is http://bit.ly/MMM-Instagram

Thanks!

zombi27

Wow, thanks for that great module :)

I had problems getting a api key, but then i found this helpful link, maybe it helps others: http://jelled.com/instagram/access-token

But i have a little problem with my pictures: on not-square pics i get ugly white bars :/ do you know a way to turn those of / make them black?

bokifide

Is there a way to just pull the followers on my instagram profile??

potentialpotato

This is awesome and Instagram has solid steps on how to get the access token. You can only view the feed of an account you have credentials to, unless you register an app and have it approved.

Another note, does it have to be restarted anytime you want to pull the most recent images? I uploaded new pictures to my IG feed, and let it sit for 12 hours but it didn’t update.

kapsolas

@zombi27 No idea. I haven’t looked into that. Maybe the code could be updated to check the width and height and dynamically set those when showing the image.

I won’t have time to work on it for a month so maybe when I return I can try to.

kapsolas

@bokifide Probably! The API is pretty feature rich. I just wanted to pull my feed images. To pull from your followers, it would need to be coded in.

I’ll consider it for a future enhancement.

kapsolas

@potentialpotato The update to the feed should occur right away. The code is set up to refresh the feed based on the updateInterval value.

dr0pb0x

anyway to make the images smaller/larger?

kapsolas

Hi,

I have not looked into autoresizing an image. It is on my list to get to when I have some time.

The image at this point is not being resized, I just take it and display it as it comes from instagram.
Videos will auto play when I get to them as well.

Thanks!

yo-less

@dr0pb0x , @kapsolas I had a quick look at your code (Not a fan of the bit.ly link) and if you go about displaying the Instagram image this way:

	var imageWrapper = document.createElement("img");
	imageWrapper.src = tempimpage.photolink;
	imageWrapper.style.maxWidth = this.config.instaMaxWidth;
	imageWrapper.style.maxHeight = this.config.instaMaxHeight;
	imageDisplay.appendChild(imageWrapper);

you should be able to specify two parameters instaMaxWidth and instaMaxHeight that the user can change in their config.file so the beginning of your MMM-Instagram.js file would look like this:

    defaults: {
        format: 'json',
        lang: 'en-us',
        id: '',
        animationSpeed: 1000,
        updateInterval: 60000, // 10 minutes
        access_token: '',
        count: 200,
        min_timestamp: 0,
        loadingText: 'Loading...',
        instaMaxWidth: '100%',
        instaMaxHeight: '100%'
    },

Now, any user of your module could define their own maximum image width and height, either by specifying an absolute figure like ‘300px’ or in relative terms using ‘20%’ or the like. I’ve created a pull request, but I suggest you test my code first as I don’t have an Instagram account or Instagram API key to test it.

You can use my fork to do so: https://github.com/yo-less/MMM-Instagram

dr0pb0x

@yo-less unfortunately this didn’t work :( I even tried setting it to 1px/1% just to make sure but the images didnt change in size

yo-less

@dr0pb0x Have you tried using my forked version here:
https://github.com/yo-less/MMM-Instagram

yo-less

@dr0pb0x I’ve tried it with my forked version after changing the module to simply retrieve any picture from the internet. It’s working fine.
The only limitation is that you can’t set the MaxHeight in relative terms (percentages), other than that, it works as intended as far as I can tell without actually using the API.

dr0pb0x

@yo-less I just had a chance to try it out and it still doesn’t work for me. Could it possibly be Instagram’s API?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21394100/what-are-the-different-image-size-formats-available-via-instagram-api

Diicken

Is there anyway to display images from my home server? And do someone have an idea how I should write the code?

yo-less

@dr0pb0x Anything is possible, but I doubt it. Please have @kapsolas help you with this, as I don’t have any direct way of testing it. As far as I’m concerned my code adjustments should work.

MichMich

Awesome work! My SO is very pleased with this idea. You might want to add a screenshot to the repo.

A Former User

Just getting “Loading…”

cowboysdude

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A Former User

@cowboysdude said in MMM-Instagram - Pull and animate photos from Instagram feed:

@kapsolas

Some of us are having issues here… little help please.

Installed per instructions with NPM Install and it isn’t working.

That’s all mine says too… “Loading…”

apparently this is an unsupported module… delete.