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Projects like this make me sad for what we have lost. All of Instagram used to provide open RSS feeds [0]. They also used to brag about third parties making int
by css 5y ago
Projects like this make me sad for what we have lost. All of Instagram used to provide open RSS feeds [0]. They also used to brag about third parties making interesting things with Instagram data [1], [2].
You can see their old blog posts by going to [3], right-clicking and copying the link of a post, and appending `/embed` to the URL.
[0] https://instagram.tumblr.com/post/8755963247/introducing-hashtags-on-instagram/embed https://instagram.tumblr.com/post/8755963247/introducing-has...
[1]: https://instagram.tumblr.com/post/8757679335/api-highlights-moby-starbucks-deftones/embed https://instagram.tumblr.com/post/8757679335/api-highlights-...
[2]: https://instagram.tumblr.com/post/8756150468/a-real-time-api-for-next-generation-apps/embed https://instagram.tumblr.com/post/8756150468/a-real-time-api...
[3]: https://instagram.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/text https://instagram.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/text
- gryn 5y agowell that's the difference between a company at a stage where it's trying to get more popular by getting approval from people and one where's it trying to squeeze what it can from you because it's established well enough. I hope we can get a less closed corporate web in the future by some miracle, but I'm not optimistic about that.
- rapnie 5y agoHow about a fully open standards-based non-corporate web: https://fediverse.party https://fediverse.party
- edhelas 5y agoWe also have RSS/Atom for that ;) XMPP can easily embed Atom in Pubsub feeds, this brings this kind of results https://mov.im/?node/news.movim.eu/TorrentFreak https://mov.im/?node/news.movim.eu/TorrentFreak
- PostThisTooFast 5y agoThis is why you don't waste time or money building something on a third party's platform that can be taken away at any moment.