✨🐥 InstaTweet 🐤✨

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Automatically Repost Content From Instagram to Twitter

Ever tried sharing an Instagram post to Twitter, only to find out that all you tweeted was a link, and not the actual photo/video?

Sharing an Instagram post to Twitter directly from the Instagram app. Only a link appears. It could be literally anything, nobody will click it.

‎ Humiliating 🤮

That could be literally anything. Nobody will click it.

InstaTweet shares the actual content of the post. Not just a link to it.

Sharing an Instagram post to Twitter using InstaTweet. The actual photo or video appears in the tweet. It's a thicc cat, very handsome. Nobody will click the link, but they'll definitely see this bad boy.

With InstaTweet, you can rest easy knowing that, although nobody will click the link, they’ll at least see what you posted.

What’s InstaTweet?

InstaTweet is a customizable tool to automatically repost content from Instagram to Twitter.

Simply create a Profile, configure the Mandatory Settings, and add_users() to repost from

from InstaTweet import Profile

# Create a new (local) Profile
>>> profile = Profile('myProfile')

# Configure the required settings (at minimum)
>>> profile.twitter_keys = twitter_api_keys
>>> profile.session_id = '6011991A'

# Add at least one Instagram account to repost from
>>> profile.add_users('the.dailykitten')

Once configured, the Profile can be used to initialize and start() an InstaTweet object

from InstaTweet import InstaTweet

# Directly initialize with the Profile from above
>>> insta_tweet = InstaTweet(profile)

# Or, save the Profile...
>>> profile.save()

Saved Local Profile myProfile

# ...then InstaTweet.load() the settings in (by Profile name)
>>> insta_tweet = InstaTweet.load(profile_name="myProfile")

# Run InstaTweet by calling start()
>>> insta_tweet.start()

From the Docs…

InstaTweet.start()[source]View on GitHub

InstaTweets all users that have been added to the loaded Profile

Each user’s IG page will be scraped and compared to the scraped list in their USER_MAPPING. Posts that weren’t previously scraped will be downloaded and tweeted

Note

If InstaTweet fails to download_post() or send_tweet(), the USER_MAPPING won’t be updated

  • This ensures that failed repost attempts are retried in the next call to start()

If a save file for the Profile already exists, successful reposts will trigger a call to save()

As InstaTweet runs, its progress will be logged to console:

Starting InstaTweet for Profile: myProfile
Checking posts from @the.dailykitten
...
Finished insta-tweeting for @the.dailykitten
All users have been insta-tweeted

Okay… But Why? 😟

But Why? 🤨

InstaTweet has two main use cases:

  • To automatically share your own Instagram posts to Twitter

  • To automatically tweet new content from other Instagram users

Regardless of your intention, InstaTweet will detect new posts from the users you specify, download them, and repost them to Twitter.

Documentation

The rest of this README, the API documentation, and snippets can all be found on Read the Docs

I put a lot of time into creating the documentation for this package, it was a struggle, so it’d mean a lot to me if you could please continue reading there! 🥰

Installation

To install using pip:

pip install insta-tweet

Please note that InstaTweet requires Python >= 3.8

InstaTweet README

Documentation

Snippets

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