Instagram example broken?

stockmind commented 6 years ago

The example shown in README didn't work. The only way i got it work for my account was doing the following:

instagram:{
            accounts: ['&CLIENTID'],  //Array: Specify a list of accounts from which to pull posts
            limit: 1,                                   //Integer: max number of posts to load
            client_id: 'CLIENTID',       //String: Instagram client id (option if using access token)
            access_token: 'ACCESSTOKEN' //String: Instagram access token
        },

The following didn't work:

instagram:{
            accounts: ['@ACCOUNTNAME'],  //Array: Specify a list of accounts from which to pull posts
            limit: 1,                                   //Integer: max number of posts to load
            client_id: 'CLIENTID',       //String: Instagram client id (option if using access token)
            access_token: 'ACCESSTOKEN' //String: Instagram access token
        },

I was doing something wrong?

HartLarsson commented 6 years ago

the demo don't have the Tokens and parameters wrote on because in the past many people used the Pavel keys and was not a good idea. Because the keys are public, probably Pavel removed them. The best way to deal with private tokens and keys will be create an extra php file with embedded the tokens and secret keys that connect to socials and give back a json for the js script.

In this way no one can steal secret tokens (very dangerous to make them public) and the demo can work properly :)

stockmind commented 6 years ago

... That's totally not the problem i had, as i shown in my examples above i simply had to specify my "CLIENTID" as account name instead of the real ACCOUNTNAME in the accounts section to let the script harvest my feed. My question was if i did something wrong or if is supposed to work like this, that's because it took lot of try and guess looking into the code to come to working a solution 😅

Looking at the code i was able to find the url and try it by hand, and if i try to reach my account searching by account name i just get this : This client has not been approved to access this resource.

So the problem was probably this.

I've made a pull request to add the "attachment_url" feature for templates as it's really useful for customized templates, and i was thinking on make a pull request to improve the docs example, but first i wanted to understand this thing.