What language would this project most benefit from?

A portion of my portfolio will contain a collection of images that i’ve photographed (hobby). I will use the instagram platform to keep a collection of these images as i take photos. However, i would like my portfolio website to also post the image.

Ideally i would like to take a picture, upload it on instagram, have it posted on instagram, then my portfolio will receive some form of notification saying “User has uploaded on Instagram”, retrieve the image and post it on portfolio.

It would be a way form me to maintain both without having to upload to both sites. Later down the road i’ll lke my portfolio site to only upload the images from instragram with the most likes but for now that will do.

Can this all be done with HTML/CSS and maybe javascript or do i need a server side language like PHP to communicate with instagram servers?

Thanks in advance!

Whatever you know best and it is allowed by Instagram API’s. Any language would do.

I don’t know how much sense a message could do. It would be nice for you to know that the picture is uploaded and showing in your portfolio but, again, you can have other methods.

I guess it is handy if a viewer is browsing your site and then he’s informed that you uploaded new pictures and if he wants to see those. But I personally think that it could be annoying.

If I’m understanding you correctly, you’re wanting to download and save images from Instagram, and add them to your website dynamically. I’d assume that you’ll need backend for that, whether that be PHP or NodeJS or something of that like - whatever language you prefer. Something you’re familiar with, as @molona says, and something that can deal with the API(s) you need to consume. Seems unwieldy to try to do it all from the frontend unless I’m misunderstanding what you’re doing there.

So in other words, you want to synchronize your Instagram gallery with your website’s gallery.

I don’t know the details of how the images are uploading are uploading to Instagram so I don’t know if there is anything that could be done there.

I assume you can’t run software such as that in the Instagram web site but I don’t know Instagram. I will assume that is not possible.

So the only other possibilities would be for your web site to periodically look for changes or for some other computer to do that. A smartphone or tablet might not be practical but something like that could work. If you have a desktop computer then perhaps it could.

There are many possibilities but someone would need more information. Details such as how important it is and how quickly you need this can make a difference. Theoretically you could just have a program in your desktop or tablet or smartphone that you execute explicitly when you know that synchronization is needed.

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