Stories

I hacked on my social media post importer a bit recently, and finally imported my stories and reels from Instagram.

Imported stories look like this:

A photo of Kamala Harris giving her acceptance speech at the DNC last week. In the foreground, a young girl watches her.

Erin’s hands are in her hair and she’s making a strange face while standing in front of a Shinto shrine with a large, white torii gate. — I should have brought a bunch of ¥5 coins I guess

Besides all the oddities about Meta’s export format I mentioned before, there’s one additional problem with stories. All of the interesting bits of rich content get flattened into a single image or video, which is not great to say the least. Consider the story on the left there, where I’ve re-posted this photo from heislerphoto. It doesn’t appear to be possible to programmatically know what post or account to link to. (Modulo OCR, I guess. Ugh.)

Here’s an example of an imported reel:

Breakfast with a view