How It Works

Listens to the real-time Twitter stream for any Instagram links. Parses out the Media ID, and sends a request to Instagram for the photo and related information.

This is purely experimental. Obviously, polling Instagram on every request is extremely inefficient. Instagram has a real-time API, but subscribing to many geographies can be cumbersome since it only allows up to a 5000 meter radius.

Node Dependencies

express socket.io twitter-node

Getting Started

1. Register your Instagram app to obtain your API keys - http://instagram.com/developer/
2. Open app.js and modify the following variables
   • INSTAGRAM_CLIENT
   • INSTAGRAM_SECRET
   • TWITTER_USERNAME
   • TWITTER_PASSWORD
3. Run 'node app.js' and open your browser to 127.0.0.1:3000