I was wondering how ink361 was creating an Instagram RSS feed from a username.
Example feed: http://ink361.com/feed/user/snoopdogg
Blog post: http://blog.ink361.com/post/23664609916/new-rss-instagram-feed-feature-on-ink361-com
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Answer
Instagram has a publicly accessible RSS API, it's hard to find any information about it, but it works for tags (we do use it).
For tags the syntax is the following:
http://instagr.am/tags/some-tag-you-want-to-follow/feed/recent.rss
I'm not sure whether they have something similar for users' feeds, as I've said it's really hard to find information about it and it may disappear from a day to another in favor of the official API, but right now it works for tags.
Here's an official blog post about it (although it covers only tags): http://blog.instagram.com/post/8755963247/introducing-hashtags-on-instagram