{"id":633242,"date":"2023-04-21T09:55:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T14:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/saving-instagram-images-automatically-every-hour-with-node-js-or-php\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T09:55:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T14:55:50","slug":"saving-instagram-images-automatically-every-hour-with-node-js-or-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/saving-instagram-images-automatically-every-hour-with-node-js-or-php\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Instagram images automatically every hour with Node.js or PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sniffagrammers<\/h2>\n

\n\"logo\"<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

In this repo you can find Node.js and PHP files to automatically downloading pictures from instagram by https:\/\/orsi.me\/sniffagram<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Prerequisites<\/h2>\n

Just a web space<\/strong> where to execute a Node.js script.. or PHP script; alternatively you can run the script on your computer.<\/p>\n

If you want to run the script automatically you need<\/em> Crontab installed<\/strong> where you execute the code or a free account to crontaboo.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Open the script<\/h2>\n

Open node\/sniffagrammer.js<\/code> or php\/sniffagrammer.php<\/code>.<\/p>\n

Edit the code according to your needs:<\/p>\n

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\/\/ type can be 'tag' or 'user'<\/span>\nconst<\/span> type<\/span> =<\/span> 'user'<\/span>\n\n\/\/ if type is 'tag', the script will search for #orsifrancesco<\/span>\n\/\/ if type is 'user', the script will search for @orsifrancesco<\/span>\nconst<\/span> value<\/span> =<\/span> 'orsifrancesco'<\/span>\n\n\/\/ only for sniffagrammer.js<\/span>\n\/\/ you can change the port of the server<\/span>\nconst<\/span> port<\/span> =<\/span> 8080<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
Upload the script on your web space.<\/h2>\n
If you use Node.js just run node sniffagrammer.js<\/code> (and open the browser).<\/p>\n
If you use PHP you can just upload sniffagrammer.php<\/code> to your web space.<\/p>\n
Open the browser<\/h2>\n
You should be able to see the output on http:\/\/yourWebSpace:8080<\/code> (or the port you set, or http:\/\/localhost:8080<\/code> if you are running the Node.js script on your computer) or http:\/\/yourWebSpace\/sniffagrammer.php<\/code> (or http:\/\/localhost<\/code> if you are running the PHP script on the htdocs\/<\/code> folder of your computer).<\/p>\n
Every time you open the URL, the script will call Sniffagram<\/a> endpoint checking for new images and saving them on images\/<\/code> folder.<\/p>\n
\"JSON<\/a><\/p>\n
Check the result<\/h2>\n
On images\/{type}\/<\/code> (where type<\/em> can be tag<\/code> or user<\/code>) you will see all the downloaded images.<\/p>\n
Every time you download a new image, you will find the hash (wikipedia<\/a>) of the image path on temp\/{type}\/<\/code>.<\/p>\n
These files are 0 bytes, they are necessary to prevent downloading the same images (if you delete these files the images will be downloaded again<\/em>).<\/p>\n
\"folders\"<\/a><\/p>\n
Download images automatically every hour<\/h2>\n
To call the URL automatically, you need to run a crontab (wikipedia<\/a>) script. If you don’t have crontab installed on your machine you can register at crontaboo.com<\/a> (the free account gives you the possibility to call URLs every hour<\/em>).<\/p>\n
\"crontaboo.com\"<\/a><\/p>\n
Advanced way to do it<\/h2>\n
Sniffagram<\/a> is an independent project that gives you 30 calls a day (enough for a call every hour<\/em>). It caches the output for 5 minutes.<\/p>\n
Due to the high number of requests, sometimes the token used for the project expires prematurely making the service unavailable (usually the expired token is replaced after a few minutes).<\/em><\/p>\n
For unlimited requests (no cache, every minute) you need to follow the tutorial from the official repo Instagram without API<\/a> for Node.js<\/a> or PHP<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Resource Links<\/h2>\n