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Pic Puller is an Expression Engine Add on that integrates Instagram into your Expression Engine site, version 2.3.1+. It walks you through setting up an account with Instagram, creating an app, and integrating it into your EE site. You can pull any number of users photos, any user's liked photos, photos by tag, and more.

Pic Puller for Instagram

Pic Puller for Instagram assists you in setting up official Instagram application that lives within your ExpressionEngine site.

Your users can then authenticate your Instragram application through the ExpressionEngine control panel using oAuth. No passwords are stored in your ExpressionEngine database.

UPDATED in version 0.9.2: Users can authenticate your Instagram application from the front end of your site. No control panel access required.

Once access is granted,  your site can pull a user’s most recent photos, their liked photos, their personal Instragram feed, and their Instagram user info. Familiar ExpressionEngine tags make building Instagram photo streams into your templates easy.

You’re not stuck with a single user per site. If your site has multiple users, each user can authenticate their Instagram account for access.

The module uses built in caching to fall back to its last successful data set when there is an error. This can be turned off though, if you choose. It will generated error messages that help you deal with unexpected behavior. (See this example.)

You also have the ability to pull any photo stream by tag from all Instagram users. Instagram’s popular photos can also be brought in.

You can try Pic Puller Lite for free before you buy the full version. It only pulls in the popular feed, but it’s a great way to test your ExpressionEngine site compatibility with Pic Puller.

This entry was last updated February 4, 2012, 7:16 am.

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