CombineHashtags

Welcome! This CLI gem helps to search for Instagram posts by using a combinations of hashtags. This first version is limited to Instagram Basic Display permissions so it will only search for posts from a single profile. Using this gem requires having a Facebook Developper account in order to get an Instagram User Access Token. Currently, only the CLI implementation is available, but I'm working on a UI implementation for Rails web apps.

Your own credentials for Instagram's Basic Display API:

• A Facebook Developer Account.

• An Instagram account with media.

• A public website that you own. This can be a generic free one like a Github Page or Heroku web app, or your actual website.

• For more info: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-basic-display-api/getting-started "

• Instagram authorization tokens are short-lived by default (about 1 hour). It is strongly recommended to get a long-lived token to facilitate the use of this gem.

• A future version might include a script to help with the authorization process. In the meantime, see here for how to get started: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-basic-display-api/guides/getting-access-tokens-and-permissions

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'combine_hashtags'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install combine_hashtags

• Start by storing your API credentials: run bin/set-env and follow the instructions.
• Load your first profile: run bin/first-query
• All set! run bin/console to access the interactive menu

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/sofofos/combine_hashtags.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.