I have been trying to figure out what this is used for.
What's the difference between using:
http://www.instagram.com/test
and
http://www.instagram.com/test/media
Why does the /media exist? What is its purpose?
The diference between http://www.instagram.com/test and http://www.instagram.com/test/media is the web response
http://www.instagram.com/test
This url give visual information, because you can see the pictures.
http://www.instagram.com/test/media
This url give you information to developer ( json data) like this.
This is information about your first image you can check.
Related
I have a URI like this:
spotify:image:ab67616d0000b2737005885df706891a3c182a57
I want to know how to get the image from this URI? I'm currently using the Web API. I imagine I might need to convert the URI into the image URL some how.
I can't see anything elsewhere on Google or in the API docs.
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!
I think the answer is you can't convert between the two, but if someone comes along one day with a way to do it I'll happily mark your answer as accepted instead.
Turns out you can, Tyler:
https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2737005885df706891a3c182a57
I tried that with a couple of images and it seems to be working.
I'm trying to build my app based on Windows Media Services REST API (i'm not using any SDK, just plain rest api requests).
My steps are more or less like:
Create Asset
Assign write Access Policy
Assign upload locator
Upload a file to URL specified by upload locator path
Assign download Access Policy
Assign download locator
All those steps seems to work great but - how can i actually get the video streaming URL? I can't see anything, which looks like such url (as far as i know, it should look similar to upload URL from upload locator). Should i "fold" it by myself using some segments from various parts of api ?
Based on this article, i should append the path parameter with name parameter and /manifest (so it should looke like that: <path_param>/<name_param>.ism/manifest) but it gives me ResourceNotFound error. Anyway, i've seen that other people (like SHIBSANKAR) have found some way to obtain all asset urls so i think there is some way to do it but they have not descrbed how they've done it.
After reading all the docs and talking with microsoft support, i have figured it out. All the URL parts are returned by download locator and the formula looks like that:
#{BaseUri}/video.mp4#{ContentAccessComponent}
I hope someone will find that usefull someday.
The GitHub API documentation says that the url
https://api.github.com/users
will give all users in the order they signed up, but I only seem to get the first 135.
Any ideas how to get the real full list?
Please use since parameter in your GET request.
https://api.github.com/users?since=XXX
Probably it's done this way to limit the resources needed to handle such request. Without such limit it's just asking for DoS attack.
If you check the response headers for that request Github provides pagination links under the header Links
Link: <https://api.github.com/users?since=135>; rel="next", <https://api.github.com/users{?since}>; rel="first"
I believe since their api v3 Github has been moving towards a hypermedia api.
Github Hypermedia API
EDIT
This is beyond the scope of this question but its related. To learn more about hypermedia API and REST. Take a look at these slides by Steve Klabnik
http://steveklabnik.github.com/hypermedia-presentation/#1
Both of the existing answers are 100% correct, but I would advise you to use a wrapper for whatever language you happen to be doing this in. There are plenty of them and there is an official one for ruby (Octokit). Here is a list of all of them.
You can filter on type:user like this:
https://api.github.com/search/users?q=type:user
See Also: GitHub API get total number of users/organizations
I am new to instagram and i am tasked to program an application to grab instagram photo uploads based on a certain hashtag. Meaning if the application is started and searching for the hashtag "#awesomeevent" any one that uploads a photo with that hashtags it will automatically be stored into our database.
The application should work something similar to http://statigr.am/tag/ but instead displaying the photos it should store the photos into the database.
What is the process of doing this. Any tutorials that has this from start to end. Even covering how to start creating a instagram app from scratch. any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Things we developers often overlook are the API Terms and Conditions. I've been there myself.
API TERMS OF USE
Before you start using the API, we have a few guidelines that we'd like to tell you about. Please make sure to read the full API Terms of Use
Terms of Use. Here's what you'll read about:
Instagram users own their images. It's your responsibility to make sure that you respect that right.
You cannot use the Instagram name in your application.
You cannot use the Instagram API to crawl or store users' images without their express consent.
You cannot replicate the core user experience of Instagram.com
Do not abuse the API. Too many requests too quickly will get your access turned off
However, a part in the terms also states that:
You shall not cache or store any Instagram user photos other than for reasonable periods in order to provide the service you are
providing to Instagram users.
Hope that's a start before you actually get coding and storing images.
API Terms of Use: http://instagram.com/about/legal/terms/api/
API: http://instagram.com/developer/
For starter, you should consult to instagram api.
As for the specific api you will need is:
/tags/tag-name/media/recent
For example, if you want to look for images from tag #awesomeevent, you will do an api query to:
https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/awesomeevent/media/recent?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN
I would have a look at the two libraries Instagram provides. The ruby library is at https://github.com/Instagram/instagram-ruby-gem and the python library is at https://github.com/Instagram/python-instagram
They both seem to have examples to get you started if you're programming with either libraries.
As far as the storing issue goes, could you instead store the URL address of the images instead of the actual images themselves? The API returns JSON information of which the URL of the images are returned.
Hope that helps.
You can use the below ruby script to retrieve the images and save them to a file. You can then either reference the file within the database or replace the last block with code for your particular database implementation. Without knowing your database type and schema, no one can tell you how to add something to it.
require "instagram"
require "restclient"
Instagram.configure do |config|
config.client_id = INSTAGRAM_CLIENT_ID
config.client_secret = INSTAGRAM_CLIENT_SECRET
end
instagram_client = Instagram.client(:access_token => INSTAGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN)
tags = instagram_client.tag_search('cat')
urls = Array.new
for media_item in instagram_client.tag_recent_media(tags[0].name)
urls << media_item.images.standard_resolution.url
end
urls.each_with_index do |url, idx|
image = RestClient.get(url)
path = Dir.pwd + "/#{idx}.jpg"
File.open(path, 'w') {|f| f.write(image) }
end
I would like to download images with a certain tag from Instagram with their likes. With this post I hope to get some advice or tips on how to do this. I have no experience with web scraping related stuff or web API usages. One of my questions is: can you create a program like this in python code or can you only do this using a webpage?
So far I have understood the following. To get images with a certain tag you have to:
need a valid access_token to even gain access to images by tag, which can be done like this. However, when I sign in you need to give a website. Does this indicate that you can only use the API's on websites rather than a python program for instance?
you use a media Tag Endpoint to search for tags by name.
I have no idea what the latest step will return exactly, but I expect that it will give me a specific image id that contains the tag. Correct? Now I will also need to get the likes belonging to these images. Just like latest step from before:
you use a likes Tag Endpoint to get a list of users that liked the image of which of course you can get the length.
If I can accomplish all of these steps it seems like I can achieve my original goal. I googled if there was something out there already. The only thing I could find was InstaRaider, but this did not seem to fit my description because it web scraped only the images from a specific user and not by tag or its likes. Any suggestions or ideas would be very helpful, I have only programmed in python and Java before..
I can only tell you that for URL you can use the localhost as this:
http://127.0.0.1
OR
http://localhost
I have also tried to do exactly the same before, but I could not, so I used a website to search for tags and images:
http://iconosquare.com/search/[HASHTAG]