My Instagram mention monitoring kept breaking, so I automated it

Описание и применение

Автоматизация мониторинга упоминаний в Instagram с помощью HikerAPI избавила от ручной проверки и повысила надёжность.

Задача

The author needed to notice Instagram tags or mentions for a small online store but manual checking was tedious and unreliable.

Результат

The new workflow is easier to maintain and reliably captures new Instagram mentions.

Рабочий процесс

• Check for new Instagram activity
• Get the post/user data through an API
• Compare it against the items already processed
• Keep only the new items
• Send those items to the next step of the workflow

Доказательства

I got tired of checking Instagram manually.

Источник

The workflow I ended up with is basically: Check for new Instagram activity. Get the post/user data through an API. Compare it against the items I've already processed. Keep only the new stuff. Send those items to the next step of the workflow.

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I'm using HikerAPI for the Instagram API part. The useful thing for my case was simply having REST endpoints I could call from the automation instead of maintaining the scraping code myself.

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