Purpose

To download all types of Instagram media objects on request from the user, just by sharing the post to an account, and store them in a Discord server in the fastest way possible.

Pipeline

(PLEASE CHECK THE WIKI FOR DETAILED STEPS ON SETTING UP THE SERVICE : WIKI)

• user sends an Instagram media object using the share / direct button to a IG business account, account receives the post as a message and is configured to send the received message from the user as a POST request to a domain connected to a Virtual Machine. The IG account is configured by setting up an app in developers.facebook.com.
• message is received by the apache2 server actively running on the VM, which redirects all traffic to a NodeJS server.
• the NodeJS server parses the message and extracts the permalink from it. (and other useful information).
• the permalink is then redirected to a Python Flask server which employs another Instagram account which operates as a bot to properly access the permalink and run instructions to scrape the media source URL.
• media file is generated from the scraped source URL.
• using the Discord Webhook integration which gives a URl for a text channel in a Discord server, the generated file is then posted to the channel.