searchstagram

Riffing of the QIS tool from Al Shaw and ProPublica, searchstagram is a quick Flask/backbone.js application to search Instagram's API by a user's location or a submitted address.

Getting Setup

• Download the zip or clone the repo locally

• Install the requirements from requirements.txt into a virtual enviroment, or just straight into the system environment if you prefer.

    pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• If you don't already, register for an Instagram account, and then register a Instagram client application. I set my OAuth redirect_uri to http://localhost:5000/.

• Create a file called config.py in the same folder as app.py. Add the following code with your INSTAGRAM_CLIENT_ID and INSTAGRAM_CLIENT_SECRET in place of the # signs.

    config_settings = {
        'INSTAGRAM_CLIENT_ID': '#',
        'INSTAGRAM_CLIENT_SECRET': '#',
    }
  

• Change into the searchstagram directory, run python __init__.py and visit http://127.0.0.1:5000/ in your browswer.

• Type in an address to search, or use your current location.

Articles written using Searchstagram

• What does LA look like at 10 pm?