Instagram4Android
This library directly talks to the private Instagram API, anything (well quite a lot) you can do on the IG app you can replicate with this library. You also bypass the public API's rate limits.
Credit
This was originally a port of a popular Java repository that provides access to Instagrams' private API. This has been changed around to use OkHttp and various other fixes have been made to make it work with Android. I will be updating this with more endpoints and so on as time goes on.
Project not in any way afilliated with Instagram.
Fair Use
Do NOT use this to spam anyone at all.
Do NOT use this for any illegal activities.
Installation
Add the following to your root build.gradle file:
allprojects {
repositories {
... maven {
url 'https://jitpack.io'
}
}
}
Then add the following to your app level build.gradle file, use the version number of the latest release:
dependencies {
compile 'com.github.charlieAndroidDev:Instagram4Android:$VERSION'
}
Instructions
Login
Instagram4Android instagram = Instagram4Android.builder().username(username).password(password).build();
instagram.setup();
instagram.login();
You must call setup() before login() otherwise an exception is thrown.
Below is my implementation of logging in to Instagram in my presenter (MVP) using RxJava2 and RxAndroid:
private void loginToInstagram(final String username, final String password) {
Instagram4Android instagram = Instagram4Android.builder().username(username).password(password).build();
attemptLogin(instagram, username, password) .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io()) .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
.subscribe(instagramLoginResult -> {
if(instagramLoginResult.getStatus().equals(view.getStringResource(R.string.login_success))) {
view.loginFinished(instagram);
}
else {
view.loginFailed(instagramLoginResult.getMessage());
}
}
);
}
private Observable<InstagramLoginResult> attemptLogin(final Instagram4Android instagram) {
Observable<InstagramLoginResult> observable = Observable.create(observableEmitter -> {
instagram.setup();
observableEmitter.onNext(instagram.login());
}
);
return observable;
}
The String resource R.string.login_success is "ok".
Get user info
InstagramSearchUsernameResult result = instagram.sendRequest(new InstagramSearchUsernameRequest("example_username"));
InstagramUser user = result.getUser();
Send the request using your Instagram4Android instance, and then call getUser() on the result. Now poke around and see what info you can get from that user object.
Follow user
instagram.sendRequest(new InstagramFollowRequest(user.getPk()));
Very simple.
Get stories (the ones you see at the top of your homepage)
InstagramReelsTrayFeedResult result = instagram4Android.sendRequest(new InstagramReelsTrayRequest());
List<InstagramStoryTray> trays = result.getTray();
trays now contains a list of InstagramStoryTray which, for the first few elements, will have a list of story items and info about the user whose story it is. After the first 3-5 elements the list of story items will be null (We'll fix that below).
To get the rest of the story items for everyone in your reel tray do this:
InstagramReelsTrayFeedResult result = instagram4Android.sendRequest(new InstagramReelsTrayRequest());
List<InstagramStoryTray> trays = result.getTray();
List<InstagramUserStoryFeedResult> userStories = new ArrayList<>();
for(InstagramStoryTray tray : trays) {
if(tray != null) {
userStories.add(instagram4Android.sendRequest(new InstagramUserStoryFeedRequest("" + tray.getUser().getPk())));
}
}
// To print the url's of the first items in everyones story do this for(InstagramUserStoryFeedResult story : userStories) {
if(story.getReel() == null) {
System.out.println("Null check for safety, hardly ever null");
}
else {
System.out.println(story.getReel().getItems().get(0).getImage_versions2().getCandidates().get(0).getUrl());
}
}