jacktang / instahust

Sync Instagram photos tagged #instahust to Sina Weibo.

instahust

Instahust is a simple tool which syncs Instagram photos tagged with instahust to Weibo. The original instahust was implemented by pyrocat101. This is the ruby implementation with some enhancements, including job queue and exception notification via email.

Behind the tag #instahust is a group of college students trying to record the school life in HUST using Instagram. You can follow us on weibo.

Installation

Make sure you have redis installed, then run

git clone https://github.com/toctan/instahust.git
cd instahust && bundle install

Rename .env.sample to .env, and edit it accordingly. Start the server with

bundle exec foreman start

Then, create a Instagram tag subscription:

bundle exec foreman run rake create_sub

Finally, go to Instagram, tag a photo and enjoy.

Deploy to Heroku

Install the heroku config plugin if you havn't:

heroku plugins:install git://github.com/ddollar/heroku-config.git

Create the app and change the DOMAIN in .env, push the config to Heroku

heroku create          # => change the DOMAIN in .env before next command
heroku config:push
git push heroku master

Create the subscription with

heroku run rake create_sub

LICENSE

MIT