Better Instagram integration

[SaturnusDJ]

At this moment when clicking a Instagram username, a new window opens. That's okish, but the connection made to that Instagram page is public, so to say, instead of through Tinder. Some users have their pictures hidden from public. We can't see their pictures using Tinder Desktop, but we can using Tinder mobile. So we should add code that opens Instagram of the person the same way as Tinder mobile does.

Not a top priority issue, I know, but it's listed now before forgetting.

[mayeaux]

Interesting. So you're saying when Tinder mobile app displays instagram pics, it will show photos of people whose profiles are private?

[SaturnusDJ]

That's right. Double checked 10 seconds ago.

[mayeaux]

Wonder how they do it. Have pinged @run1t to possibly check out

[SaturnusDJ]

Wild guess: User gives permission by linking Instagram, then Tinder receives some kind of token which they embed in a user profile. Then we send the token to Instagram and receive the content. Some kind of API access. But that's not my expertise.

[mayeaux]

The first part of fetching a token is correct, through oAuth. But there's no way that token is passed to the client via the server. Probably tinder presents that token to instagram and then serves the thumbnails to the client.

[run1t]

I will do that in 2 days I think

[mayeaux]

Lol these things are so low priority in my opinion though. :( Up to you guys ultimately what to work on but I think there's way, way more relevant things

[run1t]

If we take for a example a profile who have a instagram account linked if you go to the mobile client you have only 30 photos and after a link to the account of the user. Maybe the privates photos are in this 30 photos, if it's that, this will be enough :

client.getUser('userId',function(err,data){
    console.log(err);
    console.log(data.results.instagram.photos);
  });

otherwise after to those 30 photos, it's a redirect to the instagram app. So I don't think that we can get all the privates photos of user, by the way if it's possible it's very weird that instagram allow that. Hope it will help you :)

[SaturnusDJ]

Sounds nice. Might be good to decide what we will do with this because it would take up quite some space when we do want the Instagram thumbnails integrated in the front end like Tinder mobile.