RedIns

Get images from Reddit and upload to Instagram, Twitter and FaceBook

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• Read about it on my blog

Clone from repository

git clone https://github.com/prashantsengar/RedIns

Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

• Rename config_example.ini to config.ini
• Open config.ini and add the required API keys (see the next secyion to see how to get them)
• Set Instagram = True if you want to post to Instagram. Similarly, set True or False for other accounts
• Set captions in cap.py

Getting API keys

• To learn how to get Facebook app_id and app_secret, visit this page To get page access token, see this page
• To learn how to get Twitter API keys, visit this page

How to use

• Open Command prompt or terminal
• Go to Reddit.com and download the JSON of any subreddit and save it in the 'JSONS.py' file and follow the instruction there.
• Edit or Add captions to be used in 'caps.py' by following the instructions present there.
• Type python redins.py or python3 redins.py
• Enter the number of files to be uploaded

How to download JSON of a subreddit

• Let us say you want to get data of the subreddit /r/memes
• Go to https://reddit.com/r/memes.json
• Save the web page as memes.json in the directory of the project
• Open JSONs.py and write new_JSON('memes.json') after line 5

Note: Due to recent changes in Instagram's private API, Instagram posting might not work. It will be updated to use the new Graph API

Community

Read the contributing guide

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