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Hummingenesis

About

Hummingenesis is the permanent home of chai, patti aur cats — a small page about tea, leaves, and the cats who supervise both.

Instagram is where the reels are made, but Instagram is not an archive. Reels get buried, accounts get locked, apps change their minds. So everything posted to @chai_patti_aur_cats is copied to two places that outlast a feed: YouTube Shorts, and this site.

How it works

  1. A reel goes up on Instagram

    Nothing changes about how the page is run. Post as usual.

  2. The connector notices

    A scheduled job checks the account a few times a day using the Instagram API and the account owner's own token.

  3. It becomes a YouTube Short

    The video is downloaded, checked for the vertical, under-three-minutes shape Shorts needs, and uploaded with a title and description built from the original caption.

  4. And it lands here

    The reel gets its own page on this site, so there is a link that works even for someone with no Instagram account.

Every video and caption here belongs to @chai_patti_aur_cats. The connector reads the account with its owner's own access token — it is a mirror the page keeps of itself, not a scraper.