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Created June 21, 2014 17:11
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from datetime import datetime
import urllib2
import urllib
import json
import os
def ajaxRequest(url=None):
"""
Makes an ajax get request.
url - endpoint(string)
"""
req = urllib2.Request(url)
f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
response = f.read()
f.close()
return response
access_token = os.getenv("access_token")
# ask for hashtag name
hashtag = raw_input("What hashtag would you like to download photos of? ")
# url to query for pictures
nextUrl = "https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/"+hashtag+"/media/recent?access_token="+access_token
print nextUrl
# while there is a next url to go to
while nextUrl:
# request the data at that endpoint
instagramJSON = ajaxRequest(nextUrl)
instagramDict = json.loads(instagramJSON)
# get new nextUrl
nextUrl = instagramDict["pagination"]["next_url"]
instagramData = instagramDict["data"]
# for every picture
for picDict in instagramData:
# get the image url and current time
print picDict
image = picDict["images"]["standard_resolution"]
imageUrl = image["url"]
print image
time = str(datetime.now())
# download the photo and save it
urllib.urlretrieve(imageUrl, time+".jpg")
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