How to follow Instagram users without having Instagram

We’ll show you a method to create a static site using GitHub Pages to view the posts of public Instagram users without having an active Instagram account. To do this, you’ll only need to be registered on GitHub and CircleCI (both are free). This last service will only be used to automatically compile the code and generate the main page of the static site.

How to follow Instagram users without an Instagram account using GitHub?

First, go to the GitHub repository called No Instagram (with an active account). Then you need to edit the file “accounts.json”. In this file, you’ll have to enter the identifiers of the users you want to follow (keep the quotes and the command as they are).

Now you should enable GitHub Pages for the forked repository. To do that, go to the repository settings and you can host the GitHub site created in the “master/docs” folder.

At this point you have to create a free account on the CircleCI website (you can do it with your GitHub credentials). From there you’ll need to create a GitHub token to build a forked repository.

You’ll need to specify a Token, then create a context by going to the “Settings” section, “CircleCI Contexts” and selecting “datvance-credentials”. Finally, you’ll need to edit the file “.circleci/config.yml” located in the forked repository. Specifically, on line “26” you’ll have to enter your email address (registered on GitHub) to build the repository.

You have everything ready to start viewing Instagram posts without being registered on the social network. To do that, you’ll need to construct the URL which is:

your-username.github.io/noinstagram

After a successful build of the GitHub Pages site, it will start showing you the posts automatically. Remember that this method doesn’t work for private Instagram accounts. If you have knowledge of serving GitHub repositories, everything will be very easy for you. But if you’re a newbie, follow the steps mentioned and you’ll be able to do it without asking for help.

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