⚠️ The Instagram Legacy API was disabled on June 29, 2020. There is no guarantee this program will work with the new/updated API.

Inconvenient Instagram CLI

Have you ever wanted to view Intagram in your terminal, complete with ASCII approximations of the images? Too bad. Here's the program.

make && sudo make install

By default, this program uses open to open URLs on Mac and xdg-open on Linux. To set a custom URL opener action, set that macro in gcc, making sure to Make sure to double quote and double excape:

gcc -o asciigram asciigram.c ... -D_OPEN='"/Applications/Google\\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\\ Chrome"'

Note: This program depends on curses, libcurl, jansson, and libjpeg

Usage: asciigram --client_id="<id>" --client_secret="<secret>"

To get a client_id and client_secret, go to https://instagram.com/developer/ to register a new application. Make sure to set http://localhost:1337/ as one of the Redirect URI(s).

Credit to Instagram because this breaks some rules. Namely the name (including gram) and the fact that it slightly (and terribly) replicates the core user experience of Instagram.