[php] How to post pictures to instagram using API

For anyone who is searching for a solution about posting to Instagram using AWS lambda and puppeteer (chrome-aws-lambda). Noted that this solution allow you to post 1 photo for each post only. If you are not using lambda, just replace chrome-aws-lambda with puppeteer.

For the first launch of lambda, it is normal that will not work because instagram detects “Suspicious login attempt”. Just goto instagram page using your PC and approve it, everything should be fine.

Here's my code, feel free to optimize it:

// instagram.js
const chromium = require('chrome-aws-lambda');

const username = process.env.IG_USERNAME;
const password = process.env.IG_PASSWORD;

module.exports.post = async function(fileToUpload, caption){
    const browser = await chromium.puppeteer.launch({
        args: [...chromium.args, '--window-size=520,700'],
        defaultViewport: chromium.defaultViewport,
        executablePath: await chromium.executablePath,
        headless: false,
        ignoreHTTPSErrors: true,
    });
    const page = await browser.newPage();
    await page.setUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/7.5b3349 Mobile/14F89 Safari/603.2.4');
    await page.goto('https://www.instagram.com/', {waitUntil: 'networkidle2'});
    
    const [buttonLogIn] = await page.$x("//button[contains(., 'Log In')]");
    if (buttonLogIn) {
        await buttonLogIn.click();
    }

    await page.waitFor('input[name="username"]');
    await page.type('input[name="username"]', username)
    await page.type('input[name="password"]', password)
    await page.click('form button[type="submit"]');

    await page.waitFor(3000);
    const [buttonSaveInfo] = await page.$x("//button[contains(., 'Not Now')]");
    if (buttonSaveInfo) {
        await buttonSaveInfo.click();
    }

    await page.waitFor(3000);
    const [buttonNotificationNotNow] = await page.$x("//button[contains(., 'Not Now')]");
    const [buttonNotificationCancel] = await page.$x("//button[contains(., 'Cancel')]");
    if (buttonNotificationNotNow) {
        await buttonNotificationNotNow.click();
    } else if (buttonNotificationCancel) {
        await buttonNotificationCancel.click(); 
    }

    await page.waitFor('form[enctype="multipart/form-data"]');
    const inputUploadHandle = await page.$('form[enctype="multipart/form-data"] input[type=file]');

    await page.waitFor(5000);
    const [buttonPopUpNotNow] = await page.$x("//button[contains(., 'Not Now')]");
    const [buttonPopUpCancel] = await page.$x("//button[contains(., 'Cancel')]");
    if (buttonPopUpNotNow) {
        await buttonPopUpNotNow.click();
    } else if (buttonPopUpCancel) {
        await buttonPopUpCancel.click(); 
    }

    await page.click('[data-testid="new-post-button"]')
    await inputUploadHandle.uploadFile(fileToUpload);

    await page.waitFor(3000);
    const [buttonNext] = await page.$x("//button[contains(., 'Next')]");
    await buttonNext.click();

    await page.waitFor(3000);
    await page.type('textarea', caption);

    const [buttonShare] = await page.$x("//button[contains(., 'Share')]");
    await buttonShare.click();
    await page.waitFor(3000);

    return true;
};

// handler.js

await instagram.post('/tmp/image.png', '#text');

it must be local file path, if it is url, download it to /tmp folder first.