andreikorchagin / regenerative-generation

Welcome to Regenerative Generation! This is an open-source generative art and NFT project, whose story is told on our site.

The code itself is a Node port of p5.js, a generative art library. We then upload the generated image to Google Cloud Storage (GCS) and call the Instagram API to post the media.

GETTING STARTED

1. Clone and checkout this repo in whatever folder you'd like.
2. Change the name of config_template.json to config.json.
3. Fill in config.json with your IG ID (this can be found in your Business Manager), the GCS bucket name (found in Google Cloud Console), the long-lived Access Token to call the Instagram API, your desired hashtags (which get added as a comment to keep the caption clean), and your caption. In the config I split it into two strings, because you can't have template literals (with interpolated variables) in a JSON file. Feel free to modify that piece as you see fit for your use case.
4. Run the command npm install to install all dependencies, which are listed in package.json.
5. Try to run node app.js and check to see if everything was created correctly. I'd recommend to put logging in to return the API responses as you can get a variety of exceptions. Note that the non-console logging logic is dependent on the code bring ran on the GC VM as it doesn't otherwise remotely authenticate.

QUESTIONS?

Reach out here.