✨ Instagram APIs ✨

Setup:

STEP-1 : Install and Set Up MongoDB

            https://docs.mongodb.com/v5.0/installation/

STEP-2 : Clone this repository

            git clone https://github.com/aayush1607/instagram_api.git
            cd instagram-api

STEP-3 : Run local MongoDB instance

            mongo

STEP-4 : Download Dependencies

            go mod download

STEP-5 : Finally Run the Server

            go run main.go

STEP-6 : Then simply navigate in your browser or test the above mentioned APIs on Postman or CURL

APIs :

1. Create an User
   Method Allowed-POST
   URL http://localhost:8080/users
   JSON Request Body

   {
       "Name":"aayush",
       "Email":"[email protected]",
       "Password": "aayush@1234"
   }

   JSON Response Body

   {
       "InsertedID": "61617acff3b743f10bb0923a"
   }

2. Get User By id
   Method Allowed-GET
   URL http://localhost:8080/users/?id=61617acff3b743f10bb0923a
   JSON Response Body

   {
       "_id": "61617acff3b743f10bb0923a",
       "name": "aayush",
       "email": "[email protected]",
       "password": "$2a$10$NI5Ub2L2jIePsJu8ljOjBeK.LtfdTj5OoaWV.G7XqU3zuhAF/inCS"
   }

3. Create a Post
   Method Allowed-POST
   URL http://localhost:8080/posts
   JSON Request Body

   {
       "User": "61615ad9d9a12f1927083b7f",
       "Caption": "Hello Instagram 4",
       "Image_url": "www.insta.com",
       "Timestamp": ""
   }

   JSON Response Body

   {
       "InsertedID": "61616540d9fbb9baedcff879"
   }

4. Get a Post by id
   Method Allowed-GET
   URL http://localhost:8080/posts/?id=61616540d9fbb9baedcff879
   JSON Response Body

   {
       "_id": "61616540d9fbb9baedcff879",
       "user": "61615ad9d9a12f1927083b7f",
       "caption": "Hello Instagram 4",
       "image_url": "www.insta.com",
       "timestamp": "2021-10-09T09:47:44.93Z"
   }

5. Get all Posts by user id with pagination
   (limit is the number of posts per page and page is the page number you want to visit. If limit and page parameters are not provided then by default they will be taken as 1)
   Method Allowed-GET
   URL http://localhost:8080/posts/users/?id=61615ad9d9a12f1927083b7f&limit=2&page=1
   JSON Response Body

   {
       "posts": [
           {
               "_id": "6161616aa66d684e5bb38fbc",
               "user": "61615ad9d9a12f1927083b7f",
               "caption": "Hello Instagram",
               "image_url": "www.insta.com",
               "timestamp": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
           },
           {
               "_id": "616161e885e8e66798b7ed78",
               "user": "61615ad9d9a12f1927083b7f",
               "caption": "Hello Instagram 2",
               "image_url": "www.insta.com",
               "timestamp": "2021-10-09T09:33:28.758Z"
           }
       ],
       "total": 4,
       "page": 1,
       "last_page": 2,
       "limit": 2
   }

> Postman API collection link

Packages Used

1. MongoDB Go Driver to work with mongodb database
2. Bcrpyt to hash passwords
3. net/http for response request and response writer
4. encoding/json for encoding and decoding from json to type struct and vice versa
5. time for saving current timestamps if not provided by frontend interface

Languages & Tools Used