Insta Crawler

Fetches public instagram posts of a given username and stores it in Firebase and Algolia

Prerequisite

• Create firebase account (Free) - For storage
• Create Algolia account (Free) - For powering search
• Download firebase admin sdk private key (json file), rename it to serviceAccountKey.json and put it inside database folder along with firebase.js and insert.js
• Create .env file in the root of the cloned project

Content of .env file	Description
ALGOLIA_APP_ID="XXXXXXXXXX"	Your algolia app id
ALGOLIA_API_KEY="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"	Your algolia api key
FIREBASE_DATABASE_URL="https://xxxxxx.firebaseio.com"	Your firebase database url

Note:

Each values inside .env file should be added in a new line.

Running

• Clone the repository.
• CD to the cloned directory
• Run $ npm install
• Open index.js file and replace the value in USERNAME variable with the one you want to crawl.
• $ node index.js
• That's it! - You can view the crawled data in firebase database and algolia