Instagram JPlatform example

instagram.php

<?php
define('_JEXEC', 1);

//
// Author: Dirceu Pereira Tiegs <dirceu@jetworks.com.br> and other folks from #jdbr11
// Jetworks Desenvolvimento Web
//
// run this inside joomla-platform/examples/
require_once ('../libraries/import.php');
jimport('joomla.application.cli');
jimport('joomla.database.database');
jimport('joomla.database.table');
 
class Instagram extends JCli
{
    public function getInstagramData($tag)
    {
        return simplexml_load_file("http://instagr.am/tags/$tag/feed/recent.rss");
    }
    
    public function execute()
    {
        // Change the path to use your Joomla! installation
        require_once '/var/www/htdocs/joomla17/configuration.php';
        $media_path = '/var/www/htdocs/joomla17/media/';
        
        // Get a database driver
        $config = new JConfig;
        $db = JDatabase::getInstance(array(
            'driver' => $config->dbtype,
            'host' => $config->host,
            'user' => $config->user,
            'password' => $config->password,
            'database' => $config->db,
            'prefix' => $config->dbprefix
        ));        
        JFactory::$config = new JRegistry($config);

        // Get input from the user
        $this->out("Tag to search");
        $tag = $this->in();
        $this->out("Number of items to download");
        $count = $this->in();
        $this->out("Publish the articles immediately (Y/N)?");
        $published = $this->in();
        $publish = strtoupper($published) == 'Y';
        
        $pictures = $this->getInstagramData($tag);
        for($i=0; $i<$count; $i++) {
            // Because of some weird behavior of SimpleXML objects, we need to make some casts
            $pic = $pictures->channel->item[$i];
            $title = (string)$pic->title;
            $img = (string)$pic->description;
            
            $article = JTable::getInstance('content', 'JTable', array('dbo' => $db));

            $alias = trim(strtolower(preg_replace(array('/\s+/', '/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/'), array('-', ''), $title)));
            $catid = 9;
            
            // Save the image locally
            $filename = $alias.'.jpg';
            $destination = fopen($media_path.$filename, "w+");
            $source = fopen((string)$pic->link, "r");
            while ($a = fread($source,1024)) fwrite($destination, $a);
            fclose($source);
            fclose($destination);

            // Fill the required attributes on the article
            $article->load(array('alias' => $alias, 'catid' => $catid));
            $article->introtext = "$title <br /><img src='media/$filename' />";
            $article->title = $title;
            $article->alias = $alias;
            $article->catid = 9;
            $article->state = ($publish ? 1 : 0);
            $article->created_by = 42;
            $article->access = 1;

            if ($article->store()) {
                $this->out('Added the picture: '.$title.' to the Joomla site database.');
            } else {
                $this->out($article->getError());
            }
        }
    }
}
 
JCli::getInstance('Instagram')->execute();