how to grab geo-data location from gramfeed? - data-visualization

Question

I'm kind of new to all the programming language, and i want to grab the geo-locations for academic research in purpose of visualization data.
There is any simple way for this? or simple tutorial how to do this? i need to extract the geo-locations from the map to csv\json\xls file

Answer 1

The readme here (https://github.com/Instagram/python-instagram) is a tutorial.
For example to authenticate with the API use:
from instagram.client import InstagramAPI
access_token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
client_secret = "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET"
api = InstagramAPI(access_token=access_token, client_secret=client_secret)
Then you could locations information as with these three queries:
api.location(location_id)
api.location_recent_media(count, max_id, location_id)*
api.location_search(q, count, lat, lng, foursquare_id, foursquare_v2_id)
The docs for the location "endpoint" of this API (https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/locations/).
Essentially the above commands could send a request like:
https://api.instagram.com/v1/locations/search?lat=48.858844&lng=2.294351&access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN
The Instagram API response would be:
{
"data": [{
"id": "788029",
"latitude": 48.858844300000001,
"longitude": 2.2943506,
"name": "Eiffel Tower, Paris"
},
{
"id": "545331",
"latitude": 48.858334059662262,
"longitude": 2.2943401336669909,
"name": "Restaurant 58 Tour Eiffel"
},
{
"id": "421930",
"latitude": 48.858325999999998,
"longitude": 2.294505,
"name": "American Library in Paris"
}]
}
Python can certainly export this data into one of the file types you mentioned. Note that there is also some really nice plotting capabilities, take a look; (http://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/examples.html). The benefit of the wrapper is that you can directly interact with the response data. It would be like a Python dict object.