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I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. (codeberg.org)
submitted 2 months 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 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 23 points 2 months 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 27 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm happy someone noticed it

[–] fluxx@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] bdama@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago (30 children)

Lemmy is social media

[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You are right. According to the definition of social media, Lemmy is social media. However, "social media" would by definition fit any kind of digital communication media. A forum, or a blog, or an IRC channel are also, by definition, social media.

I would argue that the social media has a distinct association with Facebook, Instagram and the diverse spawns of those, and by association doesn't fit anything else. At best, we simply lack a different term, which splits "old-school" stuff like forums and blogs. I view lemmy more like a forum. You have categories, and users can go into categories to start discussions. You don't follow anyone. People also don't create and post their own content, but rather seek discussions or share other stuff from the internet. Your goal is not reach, follow count or like count.

It is social media, but it's definitely nothing like Facebook. We simply lack a better term.

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

I would definitely call a forum or IRC channel social media.

I wouldn't consider blogs social media unless they had a very active comments section.

[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Media is more audio, video, image. Which fits social media.

Most forums and blogs are text-based or primary text. There is no blog sharing only images/videos/audio as posts. Also no such forum.

That would be my key differentiation - forums and IRC is social, but not really media.

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why? Fuck Instagram.

[–] Harald_im_Netz@feddit.org 5 points 2 months 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 :-)

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

I disagree. Billions are being made, data centers and AI machines are being built that use the electricity that could power 50 million homes, and that is Meta ALONE. Your tattoo artist and musicians are perpetuating it. Oh well, they don't need my business. I don't support people that do that.

If people keep saying "but I have to", then fuck it, meta won.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months 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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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months 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

[–] reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

looks great! Thank you for making this

[–] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Codeberg is down, what's the URL?

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cool, thank you. Would be cool if we were able to follow accounts from there...

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

thats possible apparently: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/23840511

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LOL its broken already.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

well Instagram is serious about ratelimits

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Awesome work!

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Doing the lords work, thank you

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

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

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