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

[Sophia Komninou]

We can print some signs around. I use #SwanHack and #SwanseaHackspace. I
think we should stick to one otherwise it will be a bit confusing!

On 13 Feb 2018 21:13, "Andrew Price" <andy at andrewprice.me.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
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