falzm / instafeed

Generate a RSS feed from an Instagram user's posts 📷

Instafeed

instafeed is a very simple utility that allows you to generate a RSS feed of an Instagram user.

Requirements

• The Go language compiler (version >= 1.9)
• A valid Instagram account

Installation

Pre-compiled binaries

Pre-compiled binaries are available for stable releases.

Using go get

go get github.com/falzm/instafeed

From source

At the top of the sources directory, just type make. If everything went well, you should end up with binary named instafeed in your current directory.

Usage

Run instafeed -h for usage help.

instafeed expects the IG_LOGIN and IG_PASSWORD environment variables set to your Instagram login and password respectively, and optionally the username of the Instagram user provided as argument. On successful execution, it prints the resulting RSS feed on the standard output.

If multiple Instagram users arguments are provided, instafeed will bulk all retrieved posts into a single feed sorted in reverse chronological order (i.e. from newest to oldest).

If no Instagram usernames are provided – either as command line arguments or via the -l option –, instafeed attempts to retrieve the currently logged account's followings and use those as the source of usernames.

Example:

$ export IG_LOGIN="your_instagram_login" IG_PASSWORD="********"

# Fetching a single user feed
$ instafeed marutaro > marutaro.xml

# Fetching multiple user feeds, limiting to 10 posts per user
$ instafeed -n 10 marutaro nala_cat realgrumpycat > feeds.xml

# Fetching multiple user feeds from a list
$ cat > ~/.instagram_users <<EOF
marutaro
nala_cat
realgrumpycat
EOF
$ instafeed -n 10 -l ~/.instagram_users > feeds.xml

In order to avoid re-logging into Instagram upon each execution, instafeed stores the user profile into a local file that is read at runtime (your password is not stored). By default this file is located at $HOME/.instafeed, but a different path can be specified using the -f option.