publicmedia

A tool that shows how public data can be accessed from Instagram without an Instagram account.

Currently there is no really option available but try these common options.

• Before December 2017
  • check https://www.instagram.com/username/media
  • no longer works - redirected to login page
• Between December 2017 and April 2018
  • check https://www.instagram.com/username/?__a=1
  • no longer works - redirected to login page
• Between April 2018 and August 2019
  • check https://www.instagram.com/username/
  • grab data from inline javascript
  • no longer works - obfuscated code
• After August 2019
  • check https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_hash=...
  • no longer works on webspace
  • still works on localhost but to many request will be blocked for some minutes
  • still works on localhost with using proxy - read frontend README

This app is online under publicmedia.inpercima.net.

This project was generated with swaaplate version 2.5.3.

Prerequisites

Angular CLI

• @angular/cli 19.1.8 or higher

Apache and php

Is required if started locally and not with Docker.

• Apache 2.4 or higher
• php 8.2 or higher

Docker

• docker 27.5.1 or higher

Node, npm or pnpm

• node 22.14.0 or higher in combination with
  • npm 10.9.2 or higher or
  • pnpm 10.4.1 or higher, used in this repository

Getting started

# clone project
git clone https://github.com/inpercima/publicmedia/
cd publicmedia

Usage

Modules

For the frontend check publicmedia - frontend.

For the backend check publicmedia - api.

For the docker check publicmedia - docker.