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  1. @kingkool68 kingkool68 revised this gist Apr 24, 2017. 1 changed file with 1 addition and 0 deletions.
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    <?php
    // In this brief example we'll scrape an Instagram post and save it as a WordPress post

    // Go to a URL and get the contents back
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    // In this brief example we'll scrape an Instagram post and save it as a WordPress post

    // Go to a URL and get the contents back
    // See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_remote_get/
    $instagram_request = wp_remote_get( 'https://www.instagram.com/p/BSBvNVIF8tI/' );

    // If it's succesful, the payload of the request will be in $instagram_request['body']
    $instagram_html = $instagram_request['body'];

    // Instagram includes JSON data about the post within the HTML of the page.
    // With a bit of parsing we can get that JSON data into something we can use in PHP
    // Via https://github.com/raiym/instagram-php-scraper/blob/849f464bf53f84a93f86d1ecc6c806cc61c27fdc/src/InstagramScraper/Instagram.php#L32
    $arr = explode( 'window._sharedData = ', $instagram_html );
    $json = explode( ';</script>', $arr[1] );
    $json = $json[0];
    $instagram_json = json_decode( $json );

    // To see the data in $instagram_json refer to http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/?id=9e77af0c63b3aab427e2cb506e374a1e
    // Instagram has a very verbose structure for its data that we can simplify to work with
    $instagram_node = $instagram_json->entry_data->PostPage[0]->graphql->shortcode_media;

    // Let's get the URL src of the image
    $img_src = $instagram_node->display_url;

    // Lets get the description
    $description = $instagram_node->edge_media_to_caption->edges[0]->node->text

    // And the Instagram permalink
    // i.e. https://www.instagram.com/p/BSBvNVIF8tI/
    $permalink = 'https://www.instagram.com/p/' . $instagram_node->shortcode . '/';

    // Now let's make a WordPress post
    $post_content = '<img src="' . $img_src . '">';
    $post_content .= '<p>' . $description . '</p>';
    $post_content .= '<p>via <a href="' . $permalink . '">' . $permalink . '</a></p>';

    $new_post = array(
    'post_content' => $post_content,
    'post_title' => 'My Instagram Post',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    );

    // Create a new post with the details we provided
    wp_insert_post( $new_post );

    // Now every time this code is run it will fetch data from Instagram, parse it, and save a new post