Previously, I was using the Google+ API to fetch my posts as JSON and render them on my homepage using a custom template. Now that Google+ is going away, I had to find another solution.
Available sources
So I investigated which sources have good APIs that you can use:
- Facebook: Unfortunately no API to access posts of a profile. You can only access posts of a page.
- Instagram: Public posts are available, and you can convert them to RSS using e.g. Queryfeed.
- Twitter: Can also be exported to RSS via Queryfeed and others.
- Blogger: Exports RSS and Atom, obviously.
Combining sources
I found RSS Mix to be a very easy way to combine multiple feeds. I'm now combining my Instagram and Blogger feed.
Rendering to HTML
On my website I now download that combined feed using feedparser and render the feed using a Jinja2 template. Et voilà, goodbye Google+!
This is probably better anyway, as I stopped posting to G+ a long time ago and my stream got stale. So my homepage should look a little more up to date now!
