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

[Andrew Price]

On 13/02/18 18:57, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> On 13 Feb 2018 17:02, "Justin Mitchell" <justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
>> 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

Don't forget G+ ;)

> 
> The Liverpool one already does Instagram.

Looking at the config file in the git tree, it requires all the auth 
tokens and such that Justin is struggling against.

I think this endeavour might be starting from the wrong end, though. 
Perhaps the right order is to start collating info for a regular news 
post (it isn't that difficult to do hashtag searches manually) and then 
maybe set up some automation to do that later.

That said, getting people using the #SwanseaHack hashtag on their 
project posts should start right away.

Andy