MODX Revolution: latest posts from Instagram

- SORRY, IT'S OUT OF MAINTENANCE

This snippet allows us to get the latest posts from any non-private Instagram account.

N.B.! Please take into account, 12 latest posts can be returned only as it's limited by Instagram.

Property	Description	Default
&accountName	Instagram account name
&limit	Set the limit on the maximum number of items that will be displayed	6
&showVideo	Do we need to show the video as well? Available options: 1, 0	0
&innerTpl	Inner chunk name	Instagram-Inner
&outerTpl	Outer chunk name	Instagram-Outer
&errorTpl	Error chunk name	Instagram-Error
&cacheEnabled	Do we need to cache the data from Instagram? Available options: 1, 0	1
&cacheExpTime	Set the cache expiry time in seconds	3600

Installation

Please download the package "InstagramLatestPosts" via MODX Package Manager or from MODX Extras and install it

OR

Follow the steps below

1. Create the snippet called InstagramLatestPosts and copy the snippet code there
2. Create three chunks with the following names

• Instagram-Outer
• Instagram-Inner
• Instagram-Error

3. [optional] You can modify the chunk names above; if you do that please specify these names in the snippet parameters
4. Copy the corresponding HTML code to the chunks above
5. [optional] You can modify the chunk code as well; if you do that please use the following placeholders:

• Instagram-Outer

Placeholder	Description
[[+accountUrl]]	The link to the Instagram profile
[[+items]]	The items returned from Instagram

• Instagram-Inner

Placeholder	Description
[[+link]]	The direct link to the corresponding post
[[+type]]	Type of the item; it can have two values only: image, video
[[+url]]	URL of the image or video depending on what you want to show
[[+user.profile_picture]]	URL of the user avatar
[[+user.username]]	Instagram account name
[[+user.full_name]]	Full name of account
[[+caption]]	Post caption
[[+likes]]	Post likes count
[[+comments]]	Post comments count
[[+poster]]	A poster image for video

• Instagram-Error

Placeholder	Description
[[+error]]	The error explaining the issue

6. Place the snippet call in MODX where it's needed

[[!InstagramLatestPosts? &accountName=`nike`]]

7. Modify the properties if you like as shown below

Usage

[[!InstagramLatestPosts?
	&accountName=`nike`
	&limit=`10`
	&showVideo=`1`
	&innerTpl=`MyInnerTemplate`
	&outerTpl=`MyOuterTemplate`
	&cacheEnabled=`1`
	&cacheExpTime=`1800`
]]

Contributing

If you have any idea or bug fix, feel free to fork the code and submit your pull request back to me. I will be happy to include your awesome changes in the code!

Donations

The donations are not required - just a few "thank you" words from you would be really great to get as well :) Though if you like this MODX Extra and you would like me to release the updates more often, feel free to send any amount through PayPal.

Thanks to all supporters :)