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

[Sophia Komninou]

I personally thinκ Instagram is a much better tool to share photos of
projects than Twitter. As there is no limit on the characters users can
even add notes at the caption kind like a microblog.
I might be biased but I can see from the hackspace Instagram account
engagement that people see what we do, especially when the right hashtags
are used (users can now follow hastags as well as other users, so even if
someone does not follow the hackspace account, when using appropriate
hastags posts can still appear on their timeline and they can learn about
the hackspace this way. Twitter does not have this feature at the moment)



2018-02-14 11:36 GMT+00:00 Matthew Daubney <matt at daubers.co.uk>:

> Right! Ok, so you can use the Instagram graph API if you turn your account
> into a business account, which by the look of it, just means associating it
> with a Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/
> business/help/502981923235522 ). The graph API seems to let you do a lot
> more. There are a few more hoops to jump through if we want more than the
> Developer role to do anything meaningful, but it's not impossible, would
> just take some poking around.
>
> In all honesty I guess the question is, how many members use instagram? If
> we're just sourcing that data in and most people only use twitter/facebook
> anyway, it might seem a bit futile.
>
> The Liverpool thing seems to be easily extensible, and is designed to be
> run and pull in stuff weekly rather than a life feed. It would be nice to
> take, extend and commit back to that rather than reproduce it maybe?
>
> On 14 February 2018 at 10:13, Justin Mitchell <
> justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 21:12 +0000, Andrew Price wrote:
>> > On 13/02/18 18:57, Matthew Daubney wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > 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+ ;)
>> Yes, also the likes of instructables, suggestions of which platforms
>> are popular, preferably with an api, appreciated.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > >
>> > > 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.
>> Yes, how to pull content from instagram isnt the issue,
>> it is -permission- to pull content.
>>
>> once upon a time these kinds of APIs were open and easy to use, but
>> then something changed and they started locking them and requiring
>> authentication and permissions, and instagram is a particularly
>> stubborn one.
>>
>> in short, i can easily pull the instagram content of a single user,
>> just their basic information and items they posted themselves. anything
>> else requires special permission and approvals, which they will not
>> grant any more as they are now phasing it out, and within the next year
>> or so nobody will be able to access that content.
>>
>>
>> > 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 seems reasonable, it should be quite easy to add a wiki tag that
>> pulls in the relevant post, and then someone manually creates/updates a
>> page with interesting posts they found.
>>
>> > That said, getting people using the #SwanseaHack hashtag on their
>> > project posts should start right away.
>> agreed
>>
>> i also like sophia's suggestion of putting up some signs to push it
>>
>> should also put a note somewhere appropriate on the website
>>
>>
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