I wanted to add an Instagram feed to the Creative Clearinghouse site, and was struggling to find the right way to do it in Drupal. I searched all over and tried using the Drupagram module (it worked but not exactly what I needed), and started looking into the Feeds module. Then I stepped back and thought “Keep it Simple, Stupid”. One other time I had been searching for an answer to something I was trying to do in Drupal, and many searches later I had no results. It wasn’t that there were search results that were wrong or old or whatever, there was just a lack of search results from people complaining that they had an issue like I was perceiving I had. Until I realized the answer was so blatantly simple that a novice would even be able to figure it out. I was just waaaaaay overthinking it.<\/p>\n
And so this time, I started thinking along those same lines. I probably was over thinking it. All I wanted to do was get some Instagram pictures that were hash tagged with #creativeclearinghouse. There is an RSS feed from Instagram that does that. There is an Aggregator module in Drupal 7 that pulls in feeds. So I gave that a whirl. It worked with views and presto, I had my Instagram feed!<\/p>\n
First I set up a feed under the Aggregator module configuration to the feed URL- http:\/\/instagram.com\/tags\/yyy\/feed\/recent.rsswhere<\/a> yyy is a hashtag. Then I created a view that was created using an Aggregator feed type. Here is a great tutorial on how to do that – http:\/\/drupal.ucar.edu\/forum\/node\/155<\/a> .<\/p>\n I ended up tweaking the Aggregator module. I know, I know this is NOT what you are supposed to do!!! However, I wanted to link back to the Instagram author and show the caption. These are not pulled in now by the Aggregator module. I wanted the author to be set to the value of the media:credit tag and the description to be set to the media:title tag. so I added the following:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \/\/ Resolve dc:creator tag as the item author if author tag is not set. <\/p>\n after:<\/p>\n \/\/ Resolve dc:creator tag as the item author if author tag is not set. <\/p>\n Also after:<\/p>\n } I added:<\/p>\n elseif (!empty($item[‘media:title’])) { This was in the modules parser.inc file.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Update 6\/5\/2013:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I think what folks might be missing is this: in my view for the Aggregator View, I played around with the fields.<\/p>\n I have 5 fields:<\/p>\n Aggregator: Item ID (which I hide from display) For the Aggregator: Author field, I used the option to rewrite the results like so:<\/p>\n from [author]:<\/p>\n
if (empty($item[‘author’]) && empty($item[‘dc:creator’]) && !empty($item[‘media:credit’])) {
$item[‘author’] = $item[‘media:credit’];
}<\/p>\n
if (empty($item[‘author’]) && !empty($item[‘dc:creator’])) {
$item[‘author’] = $item[‘dc:creator’];
}<\/p>\n
elseif (!empty($item[‘content’])) {
$item[‘description’] = $item[‘content’];
}<\/p>\n
$item[‘description’] = $item[‘media:title’];
}<\/p>\n
Aggregator: Author (which I used the option to rewrite the results)
Aggregator: Link (which I hide from display)
Aggregator: Title (which I hide from display)
Aggregator: Link (which I used the option to rewrite the results)
Aggregator: Body (which I used the option to rewrite the results)<\/p>\n