Instagram Crawled API

Simple project to random select a winner from comments of a Instagram giveway, promotion or contest using technologies learned at XXI SIECOMP

Technologies used

API

Instagram RESTful API using express

Setting up

$ PORT=3000 npm run server

Users

/users/:username User basic information

username :string - (Required) The username of a user to get information about

{
  "data": {
    "bio": "",
    "counts": {
      "followed_by": 0,
      "follows": 0,
      "media": 0
    },
    "full_name": "",
    "profile_picture": "",
    "username": "",
    "website": ""
    "isPrivate": false
  }
}

/users/search?q= Search for a user by name
- q :string - (Required) A query String
- count :integer - Number of users to return
```
{
  "data": [
    {
      "full_name": "",
      "profile_picture": "",
      "username": ""
    }
  ]
}
```
/users/:username/media/recent Get Recent media from a user
- username :string - (Required) The username of a user to get recent feed
```
{
  "data": [
    {
      "link": "",
      "picture": "",
      "id": "",
      "picture_alt": ""
    }
  ]
}
```

/media/:mediaId Media basic Information

mediaId :string - (Required) The id of a media to get information about

{
  "data": {
    "caption": {
      "from": {
        "username: ""
      },
      "text": ""
    },
    "comments": {
      "count": 0,
      "data": [
        {
          "from": {
            "username": ""
          },
          "text": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    "created_time": "",
    "id": "",
    "images": [
      {
        "url": "",
        "height": 0,
        "width": 0
      }
    ],
    "likes": 0,
    "link": "",
    "location": {
      "name": ""
    },
    "type": "image || video",
    "users_in_photo": [
      {
        "username" : ""
      }
    ],
    "videos": [
      {
        "src": "",
        "thumbnail: ""
      }
    ]
  },
}

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