Posts only update on build/restart

[jgoggles]

Is there a way to query/scrape IG when the page loads in order to always see the latest posts?Right now the only way to get new posts is restarting gatsby develop or running gatsby build. Will using the IG Graph API accomplish this? It seems like a lot of trouble to go through to get a token just to display the last 6 Instagram posts on my site so I've held off and am using the scraper for now. Thanks!

Edit: is there a way to use the React component lifecycle (ie componentDidMount) for this?

[oorestisime]

Hello,

right now no there is no way to get the posts on each request. The only plugin i know that implements this kind of logic is the gatsby-source-filesystem and it is actually using a file watcher to accomplish it when using gatsby develop.

But even if there was a way to have a watcher on gatsby develop, there is no way (that i know) to have this on a live production site since the plugins are not in your source files. I ll ask around but it seems to me that in gatsby logic there is no way to use component lifecycle for actually running plugins.

[jgoggles]

Thanks for the response. I got it to work how I want by taking your getPublicInstagramPosts function and moving that into my component, then calling it in the component's componentDidMount (passing in the IG username). So I sort of had to "extract" your plugin and use the raw source outside of the Gatsby plugin ecosystem.

[oorestisime]

yeah obviously this would work!