Instagram is a popular photo/video sharing application that enables users to share images and text captions with other people on social media. The app allows users to apply a variety of custom filter effects to enhance their images. Instagram is a free service and offers the ability to follow others, make user profiles private or public, post to other linked social accounts, and tag people or a location.
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1. Open the Airbyte platform and navigate to the "Sources" tab on the left-hand side of the screen.
2. Click on the "Add Source" button and select "Instagram" from the list of available connectors.
3. In the "Configure Instagram" page, enter your Instagram username and password in the appropriate fields.
4. Click on the "Test Connection" button to ensure that the credentials are correct and the connection is successful.
5. Once the connection is verified, click on the "Save & Test" button to save the configuration and test the connection again.
6. If the test is successful, click on the "Create" button to create the Instagram source connector.
7. You can now use the Instagram source connector to extract data from your Instagram account and integrate it with other tools and platforms.
1. Log in to your AWS account and navigate to the AWS Management Console.
2. Click on the S3 service and create a new bucket where you will store your data.
3. Create an IAM user with the necessary permissions to access the S3 bucket. Make sure to save the access key and secret key.
4. Open Airbyte and navigate to the Destinations tab.
5. Select the AWS Datalake destination connector and click on "Create new connection".
6. Enter a name for your connection and paste the access key and secret key you saved earlier.
7. Enter the name of the S3 bucket you created in step 2 and select the region where it is located.
8. Choose the format in which you want your data to be stored in the S3 bucket (e.g. CSV, JSON, Parquet).
9. Configure any additional settings, such as compression or encryption, if necessary.
10. Test the connection to make sure it is working properly.
11. Save the connection and start syncing your data to the AWS Datalake.
With Airbyte, creating data pipelines take minutes, and the data integration possibilities are endless. Airbyte supports the largest catalog of API tools, databases, and files, among other sources. Airbyte's connectors are open-source, so you can add any custom objects to the connector, or even build a new connector from scratch without any local dev environment or any data engineer within 10 minutes with the no-code connector builder.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Instagram's API provides access to a wide range of data related to user accounts, media, and interactions. Here are the categories of data that can be accessed through Instagram's API:
1. User data: This includes information about a user's profile, such as their username, bio, profile picture, follower count, and following count.
2. Media data: This includes information about the media that a user has posted, such as the caption, location, likes, comments, and tags.
3. Hashtag data: This includes information about hashtags that are used in posts, such as the number of posts that have used a particular hashtag, and the top posts for a given hashtag.
4. Location data: This includes information about the locations that are associated with posts, such as the name of the location, the latitude and longitude, and the number of posts associated with a particular location.
5. Comment data: This includes information about the comments that are posted on media, such as the text of the comment, the username of the commenter, and the time the comment was posted.
6. Like data: This includes information about the likes that are given to media, such as the username of the user who liked the media, and the time the like was given.