I recently did a little site update. The biggest change was connecting it to my Micro.blog and syndicating the posts here. Micro.blog, in turn, picked up my Instagram posts, routing them over here as well. This was done using a cool, little service called OwnYourGram.
Though a brilliant (and free!) initiative, it didn’t work very well. It was hard to keep track of just when it would reroute my pics, and the other day it stopped working completely. The error message was kinda vague, so I have no idea who’s to blame – might be OwnYourGram, might be micro.blog… might be me.
Anyway, I’d recently set up Zapier to tell Netlify to update my site whenever I’d posted something new to micro.blog, so I thought I’d check if it could also do my Instagram sharing for me. Turns out it could!
I don't post to Instagram as often as I used to. I prefer to post images to my website first. But I thought it would be useful to pull in my Instagram updates to micro.blog. My Instagram is set to point to my WordPress.org website for "backfeed" responses. OwnYourGram is not a solution for me.
The instructions provided by @CarlRustung were easy for me to follow. It works!
Update: I used the same method to pull in posts from Untappd.
@CarlRustung this is the first of my “excuses to use Zapier” that has stuck more than a day ??
@galexa Wow, so happy someone found that useful! 🙂
@islandinthenet.com It lives! Thanks to @CarlRustung for simple instructions: IG to MB via Zapier.
Zapping Instagram pics to Micro.blog | Carl Rustung
@khurtwilliams Thanks for that. I don't want to use Ownyourgram so I'm going to try Zapier.
@galexa give a shout out to @CarlRustung when you get it working.