Reconstituted Instagram
April 8, 2025 2:14 PM Subscribe
Reconstituted Instagram
I wanted to delete my Instagram for a lot of reasons, but didn't want to lose the images & history. I wrote some code to take the Instagram export and turn it into something that is pleasing to interact with and easily self-hostable. The whole thing is designed to be easy for other folks to run so that they too can delete Instagram!
I wanted to delete my Instagram for a lot of reasons, but didn't want to lose the images & history. I wrote some code to take the Instagram export and turn it into something that is pleasing to interact with and easily self-hostable. The whole thing is designed to be easy for other folks to run so that they too can delete Instagram!
Role: programmer
Your blog post about the effort deserves a link!
posted by artlung at 8:54 AM on April 9 [1 favorite]
posted by artlung at 8:54 AM on April 9 [1 favorite]
IndieWeb looks cool thanks for the tip/link there!
posted by gregr at 9:52 AM on April 9 [1 favorite]
posted by gregr at 9:52 AM on April 9 [1 favorite]
Neat!
posted by Klipspringer at 7:06 AM on April 10 [1 favorite]
posted by Klipspringer at 7:06 AM on April 10 [1 favorite]
Dang, this is wonderful!!!
posted by wenestvedt at 10:23 AM on April 21 [1 favorite]
posted by wenestvedt at 10:23 AM on April 21 [1 favorite]
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I intend to try this out with some dormant accounts of mine in the next week or so.
I have a bias for composer-based PHP so might look at adapting some of the code if I get ambitious but any kind of reasonable output from the monstrous json they spit out would be a huge win.
I also appreciate you mentioning the risks of putting the whole exported dump online without vetting.
posted by artlung at 8:51 AM on April 9 [1 favorite]