RSS to Instagram PHP Bot
Ship RSS to Instagram with a Tiny PHP Bot (No Plugins, No CMS) Most blogs already syndicate updates through RSS—but Instagram is still a manual grind. In this mini-build, we turn any site (ours wasn’t WordPress) into an auto-publisher : new RSS items → square, readable title cards → posted to an Instagram Professional account via the Instagram Graph API . The goal is practical and reproducible : Input: your site’s RSS feed. Transform: generate a clean 1080×1080 image with the post title (high contrast, safe margins, custom font). Output: publish to your own Instagram Business/Creator account using the two-step Graph flow ( /media → /media_publish ). Why this approach? No third-party schedulers : Great tools exist, but monthly fees add up. We wanted a zero-subscription path we control. Works with any stack : It’s plain PHP with cURL and GD. Drop-in files; no Composer required. Readable thumbnails : Instead of reusing wide (1200×630) OG ima...