[Swansea Hackspace] Creating a newsletter/ Showcasing what we work on

[Gwion Davies]

From my experience and talking to Skippr (a startup that made tools for Instagram, they are no longer trading) Instagram really screws developers over when it comes to the api. It would probably be easier to scrap the site then use the api :P

G.

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On 13 Feb 2018, at 17:03, Justin Mitchell <justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk<mailto:justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>> wrote:

On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 15:34 +0000, Matthew Daubney wrote:
Being a nice friendly sort, they've published their source code https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/weeknote-generator so that makes it a bit easier.

On 13 Feb 2018 15:26, "Sophia Komninou" <sophia.komninou at gmail.com<mailto:sophia.komninou at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello,

So during the AGM we discussed a bit about how we showcase what we do in a collective manner.

Here is an example of how DoES Liverpool does it https://doesliverpool.com/category/weeknotes/

Basically, they have a dedicated hashtag (in our case this could be #SwanHack for example) and then someone who is a bit more competent than me in programming (that isn't difficult, I can't code) make some kind of program that collects the posts with this hashtag from all social media and puts them together in a newsletter, or a blog post or something. (I try to post a few things on Mondays or on events on Instagram, but if people want to use their personal accounts they could just use the hashtag in their posts)

They do have some other stuff in their "weeknotes" like upcoming events. I am wondering whether this can be an automated newsletter for everyone in the mailing list so they are updated without having to check the website for new events (because, in reality, who really does that???).

I have no idea how easy or difficult this is but I am sure there are people who can gauge how doable it is.

I had started to look at this, finding some javascript tools that aggregate social media postings onto your website.

but i hit problems at the first thing i looked at, Instagram.

all the tools need an access_token to talk to the instagram API, to get that you need to register a client, but that is in sandbox mode and heavily restricted to what it can see (basically only things posted by yourself), to see anything else you need to go through an approvals process for your client, and they are no longer accepting requests for that as the API is being deprecated in a few months.

If anyone has used the instragram APIs recently, and knows any more about it than i have been able to find, please let me know.

I will look at the twitter and facebook APIs next


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