Inspired by nitter.
Awesome! Got it running and seems to work well. Also I love the CLAUDE.md file you got there in the repo 🐈
I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://codeberg.org/irelephant/kittygram
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JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’m happy someone noticed it
fluxx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Read it now. It made my day a bit better :)
bdama@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
It would be great if people could stop using Meta services and software.
Fedditor385@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It would be great if people stop using social media in general.
KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Nice. After Bilbogram was discontinued, I believe we all were waiting for an replacement.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Why? Fuck Instagram.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I made this because I hate Instagram, but there’s still lots of valid reasons to use it.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
No. There is no valid reason to use it. All this does is continue to enable a massive AI data center and Zuckerbergs billions. Walking away is the only viable option.
Harald_im_Netz@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
On the one side, you’re absolutely right. On the other hand, people around us are still using it, especially Musicians and Artists. If I want to find out some concert dates or check the mail of a tattoo artist I like, sometimes I have no other option than checking Instagram, despite killing the artist of my list – which I do not want to :-)
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I disagree. Billions are being made, data centers and AI machines are being built that use the electricity that could power 50 million homes, and that is Meta ALONE. Your tattoo artist and musicians are perpetuating it. Oh well, they don’t need my business. I don’t support people that do that.
If people keep saying “but I have to”, then fuck it, meta won.
airikr@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Just don’t get a court order by Meta like the other dude that created a front-end for Instagram. Can’t remember the name since it was before the pandemic. There was a lot of news about it in the FOSS community.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Barinsta was a full client, not just a simple frontend.
airikr@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
That was the name! And yes, you’re right. It was a full client.
JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Obviously I’m not a lawyer but I don’t see what law they could use to shut it down. All it’s doing is accessing publicly available data via a proxy. It’s not like it’s exploiting Instagram somehow.
If they wanna stop it, they can do what Twitter did and start requiring an account to see almost anything. Personally I suspect Meta is slowly going towards that.
airikr@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Good. Then they have nothing to say about :)
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
awesome! i hope this stays around.
would be nice if it also saved/archived everything it downloads from instagram and sends it to the internet archive
reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It would be cool if this was ActivityPub compatible so we could follow Instagram from Mastodon. As much as I hate meta, there are some artists I would like to follow still
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Check kilogram.makeup
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Or even if it could provide RSS feeds of accounts, for following in a RSS reader.
Though excellent work!
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I would like to add RSS, I don’t think it’s feasible cadence.moe/…/2022-09-01-discontinuing-bibliogram
A much-requested feature I added early on was RSS feeds. This ended up getting quickly turned off for the main instance, because RSS usage was dwarfing interactive usage. Many of these feeds had been added to people’s readers and forgotten about. Even today I still receive a decent number of forgotten requests for feeds — these forgotten feeds haven’t returned useful data for more than two years. Feed requests aren’t free. Bibliogram needs to make an outgoing web request, wait for it, and convert the response data. This also uses up a piece of Bibliogram’s rate limit to Instagram, even if nobody’s there to see the feed that Bibliogram generates.
I could add it, but have it disabled by default, so anyone hosting a personal instance can enable it.
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Codeberg is down, what’s the URL?
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
My instance is kittygram.irelephant.net
artyom@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Cool, thank you. Would be cool if we were able to follow accounts from there…
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
looks great! Thank you for making this
iamthetot@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Awesome work!
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Pretty sure Bibliogram was inspired by Nitter before it became deprecated. Hope to see this flourish.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Doing the lords work, thank you
scala@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Very cool. Guess I’ll have to use it on the PC rather than using istander.
kumi@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
Best of luck! Keeping up with platform changes is an challenge for projects like this. I think to be successful beyond initial popularity you need an active community that can do this together. It’s draining for just one person - especially once you get big enough that they might actively break things just to mess with your integration. Following maintenance of alternative YouTube clients as well as searx-ng is illustrative.
https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-09-01-discontinuing-bibliogram
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I’ve already read that article, the situation on Instagram has changed a bit, which makes scraping easier.
Ratelimits are still a problem if you don’t have a residential IP, but I have a workaround for that (which I’m hesitant to share publicly).