Bibliogram

An alternative front-end for Instagram.

Bibliogram works without client-side JavaScript, has no ads or tracking, and doesn't urge you to sign up.

See also: Invidious, a front-end for YouTube.

Features

• View profile and timeline
• Infinite scroll
• User memory cache
• RSS (latest 12 posts)
• View post
• Galleries
• Videos
• Galleries of videos
• Image disk cache
• Clickable usernames and hashtags
• Homepage
• Proper error checking
• Optimised for mobile
• Favicon
• Settings (e.g. data saving)
• List view
• IGTV
• Public API
• Rate limiting
• Explore hashtags
• Explore locations
• more...

These features may not be able to be implemented for technical reasons:

• Stories

These features will not be added, unless you ask reallllly nicely:

• Comments
• Tagging users

Instances

There is currently no official Bibliogram instance.

Perflyst has hosted an instance on https://bibliogram.snopyta.org (example page), but this is not managed by me and I cannot verify its code.

If you only use one computer, you can install Bibliogram on that computer and then access the instance through localhost.

Installing

Bibliogram depends on GraphicsMagick for resizing thumbnails.

Ubuntu: # apt install graphicsmagick

1. $ git clone https://github.com/cloudrac3r/bibliogram If you are using a fork, be sure to actually install that fork instead!
2. $ npm install
3. Edit /config.js to suit your server environment
4. $ npm start

Bibliogram is now running on 0.0.0.0:10407.

User-facing endpoints

• /u/{username} - load a user's profile and timeline
• /u/{username}/rss.xml - get the RSS feed for a user
• /p/{shortcode} - load a post