Instagram Windows Screen Saver
gPhotoShow Pro Plugin
gPhotoShow Pro is powerful and flexible slideshow and screen saver creator, with the help of the Instagram Plugin it can easily display photos and videos from your Instagram account and use them as screen saver.
The Instagram PlugIn can download photos and video from:
- User Feed
- User Photos/Videos
- Liked Photos/Videos
- Popular Photos/Videos
- Photos and videos with specific tags
How to create an Instagram Screen Saver
with gPhotoShow Pro and Instagram PlugIn
First of all download and install gPhotoShow Pro and the Instagram PlugIn from the download page
Once gPhotoShow Pro and the Instagram plugin are installed you need to configure them. If this is the first time you use gPhotoShow Pro take a look at the gPhotoShow Pro Tutorial
1) Create a folder where to store photos downloaded from Instagram, for example Instagram inside your user profile
2) Open the gPhotoShow Pro configuration window and add to the list the folder just created
If you plan to download video files in addition to photos add the same folder also in the "Video and Animations" page
3) Select Plug-Ins on the tree on the left, then double click on the "Instagram" plugin to configure it.
First of all the PlugIn must be enabled by checking the control "Enable PlugIn", then in the field labeled "Folder to store downloaded images" you must set the same folder you added in the gPhotoShow list.
To use the plugin you must authorize the program to access your account. To do it simply click on the "Authorize" button, login into your Instagram account, confirm and you are done.
After authorization you can choose which items to download, for example you can tick "My Feed" and photos with specific tags. Remember to separate tags with comma (,).
Since feeds and queries with specific tags can find thousands of photos you can limit the amount of photos to download. By default the maximum is 100.
By clicking on the "Settings" button you can change some download settings, for example you can use photos description or owner name as caption.
That's all. Close all windows by clicking on "OK"in order to save changes. Next time the screen starts it will begin to download photos from Instagram and after some seconds you will see them on your screen.