PhotoWall

Instantly display a wall of photos related to a keyword.

Try it!

http://picwall.herokuapp.com (defaults to showing kittens ;-)

Background

As part of my investigation into automated testing of image uploads I've decided to use instagram's public feed.

Instagram RSS only returns 20 images:

So we need to save the images we've already seen to create a wall.

Also, any keyword you search for returns selfies...

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Instagram API

• Full API: http://instagram.com/developer/
• No Auth (Public RSS): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14747870/instagram-public-rss-feed
• Try is yourself (returns RSS/XML): http://instagram.com/tags/YOUR_KEYWORD/feed/recent.rss
• Interesting Examples: http://mashable.com/2013/09/19/instagram-api-uses/

Flickr API

• https://www.flickr.com/services/api/
• http://code.flickr.net/

Other

• http://photobucket.com/images/kittens
• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/photo

Implementation Details

• Node HTTP Url parameters: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6912584/how-to-get-get-query-string-variables-in-node-js
• Node as Simple HTTP (Web) Server: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6084360/node-js-as-a-simple-web-server

Related

• https://github.com/nelsonic/node-parse-rss
• https://github.com/sentientwaffle/feed-read
• https://github.com/nelsonic/enlarge-image