Instagram Basic Display API in Golang

This is a Go package that fully supports the Instagram Basic Display API.

Feel free to create an issue or send me a pull request if you have any "how-to" question or bug or suggestion when using this package. I'll try my best to reply it.

Install

Install this package with go get github.com/dvarelap/ig.git

Usage

Get profile from a ig user.

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/dvarelap/ig.git"
)

func main() {
	var (
		client       = ig.NewClient("<ACCESS_TOKEN>")
		profile, err = client.GetProfile()
	)
        
    	checkIfErr(err)

	fmt.Println("Here's my profile:", profile)
}

The type of profile is ig.Profile struct, which has the following structure

type Profile struct {
	ID          string
	Username    string
	AccountType string
	MediaCount  string
}

and represents fields on User's fields

Get user's media.

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/dvarelap/ig.git"
)

func main() {
	var (
		client       = ig.NewClient("<ACCESS_TOKEN>")
		media, err = client.GetMedia()
	)

	checkIfErr(err)

	fmt.Println("User's media:")
	for _, entry := range media {
		fmt.Println(entry)
	}
}

Media is a slice of type ig.Entry struct, which has the following structure

type Entry struct {
	ID           string
	Username     string
	Caption      string
	MediaType    string
	MediaURL     string
	Permalink    string
	ThumbnailURL string
	Timestamp    string
}

and represents fields on Media

Exchange access token for a long lived token.

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/dvarelap/ig.git"
)

func main() {
	var (
		client     = ig.NewClient("<ACCESS_TOKEN>")
		token, err = client.LongLivedToken("<CLIENT_SECRET>")
	)

	checkIfErr(err)

	fmt.Println("This is my token:", token)
}

The type of token is ig.LongLiveToken struct, which has the following structure

type LongLiveToken struct {
	AccessToken string
	TokenType   string
	ExpiresIn   int64 
}

it represents Long Lived Token from described here.

Licence

This package is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.

dvarelap / ig