instagram-sharer

Instagram share on stories capacitor plugin.

You can share your images as IG story with new Open Graph API that needs the Facebook App ID.

Install

npm install @emish89/capacitor-instagram-sharer
npx cap sync

and put in the Info.plist file :

<key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key>
	<array>
		<string>instagram</string>
		<string>instagram-stories</string>
	</array>

and in the AndroidManifest.xml :

<queries>
        <package android:name="com.instagram.android" />
    </queries>

Sample Usage

await InstagramSharer.shareToStory({
  imageBase64: base64String,
  appId: facebookAppId(),
});

API

• shareToStory(...)

shareToStory(...)

shareToStory(options: { imageBase64: string; appId: string; }) => Promise<void>

| Param | Type | | ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | | options | { imageBase64: string; appId: string; } |

Build in local

run this to set the env variables

export ANDROID_HOME="$HOME/Library/Android/sdk"
export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT="$ANDROID_HOME"
export PATH="$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/emulator:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools"

then run the build or publish

npm run verify

Publishing

To publish this package to npm:

1. Make sure you are logged in: npm login (use OTP if your account has 2FA).
2. Run a dry run to verify what will be published:

npm publish --dry-run --access public

3. Publish the package (for scoped packages use --access public):

npm publish --access public

If you use CI, create an automation token on https://www.npmjs.com/ (Account → Access Tokens) and set it as NPM_TOKEN in your pipeline. For more details see the npm documentation.