staringispolite / mandoline

Slice a video into 30 second segments, post over time to Instagram

mandoline

Slice video into 30 second segments, post to Instagram over time

Setup on Digital Ocean:

• DigitalOcean LAMP server (really just need Linux and PHP)
• apt install curl php-curl php7.0-mbstring zip unzip php7.0-zip ffmpeg ubuntu-restricted-extras
• Install composer https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#globally
• Install Instagram PHP API https://github.com/mgp25/Instagram-API
• Install Google Chrome https://askubuntu.com/a/510063
• Install pip and upgrade it
• Install InstaPy https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy
• Install the right chrome driver -> InstaPy/assets
• Install all the packages here https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy/issues/35
• cd InstaPy; cp -r instapy /path/to/mandoline/; ln is /path/to/mandoline/likes.py your_project_name.py

Setup on Macbook:

• Install PHP, Python, ffmpeg
• Install composer https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#globally
• Install Instagram PHP API https://github.com/mgp25/Instagram-API
• Install InstaPy https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy
• Install the right chrome driver -> InstaPy/assets
• Install packages as they error (use pip install --user to avoid OS X El Capitan filesystem perms errors)

Video splitting:

• Split video (assuming it's ./video.mp4)
• > ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -codec copy -f segment -reset_timestamps 1 -segment_list segment_list.txt -segment_list_type csv -segment_time 30 segment%03d.mp4
• Scale down if need be (Instagram only accepts 480p-720p width as of this writing)
• mkdir scaled
• > find . -name "segment*.mp4" -exec ffmpeg -i {} -vf scale=720:404 ./scaled/{} \;
• Optional: Split out story videos (can only be 15 seconds, using 14sec because copy codec can be imprecise). For example:
• cd scaled; mkdir story
• find . -name "segment*.mp4" -exec echo ffmpeg -ss 0:00 -i {} -t 14 -c copy story/{} \;

Get ready to post

• > git clone https://github.com/staringispolite/mandoline.git
• cd mandoline
• mkdir segments
• cp segment*.mp4 ./segments
• cp segment_list.txt ./segments/segments.db
• Add Instagram username & password to mandoline.py

Post to Instagram

• python mandoline.py --basepath="/abs/path/to/segments/" (end with a /)

Post automatically via cron

• Adding the following to your crontab, to post at 8am and 8pm UTC:
• 0 8,16 * * * username python /absolute/path/to/mandoline.py --basepath="/absolute/path/to/segments/"

Make friends

• cd InstaPy; python your_project_name.py or via crontab, eg
• 0 12 * * * root cd /path/to/InstaPy; python your_project_name.py