Autopublish album in Google+ photos Okay, in spite of the hate being heaped on by iPhone elitists, I have installed Instagram on my Android phone and have started playing with it a bit.

How can I get my Instagram photos to automagically appear in a public album in Google+ Photos?

Felicia Day, for instance, has a public Instagram album.

I can see, on my phone, an Instagram album (which was automatically created by the app), but there is no such album in my Google+ Photos. The options for the phone album do not include a "make public" option, and there's nothing in the Instagram settings. At best, the photos are appearing in the default "Photos from your phone" album.

I know that I can manually share them, either through the website by making a public album and moving/copying them there, or using the Share features on my Android, but I'd rather have something automatic.

Is this possible, or just a pipe dream?

(Cross-posted at Web Applications.)
Someone posted a how-to recently to do exactly what you're asking for.


  You'll need a few tools to get started here, and luckily they are
  available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This method uses Dropbox and
  Picasa3 to keep things synced up, and a side benefit is that photos
  are available from anywhere -- not just the device that took them.
  
  To get started, you need to install the Dropbox client on your home
  computer. If you already have a Dropbox account, you can use the same
  login and you'll find that having Dropbox installed on your computer
  is a good thing anyway. Just visit this link and download the correct
  version for your computer platform. Install it, and you're done with
  the first step. 
  
  Next, you'll need to install the Picasa3 program from Google. It's a
  pretty good photo organizer and viewer, but what we're interested in
  is the way it can sync a folder to your Google+ photos. This is where
  the magic will happen. Visit this link and download the appropriate
  version, and install it. Windows and Mac users have it easy, but if
  you're running Linux you'll need to install Wine 1.3 or higher, and
  use winetools to install the bits from ie6 to get the account Oauth
  working. There's plenty of tutorials on the net for this, and if you
  hit a snag, holler at me. 
  
  Got those installed? Good. You're just about finished. The next step
  is to visit Instadrop and setup the Instagram to Dropbox sync.
  Instadrop is a web-app, running on Google's appspot engine, and is
  what makes this all work. You'll link the Instadrop app to both your
  Instagram account and your Dropbox account, and anytime you post a
  picture to Instagram it will get copied to a folder named "Instagram
  photos". All you need to do is link your accounts, and the app does
  the rest. You can do that here, and if you're the suspicious type, you
  can inspect the source code on Github and see exactly what's going on.
  
  A couple final steps setting up Picasa and your Google+ album. Open
  the Picasa program, and click File > Add folder to Picasa. In your
  Dropbox folder, find the Instagram photo directory (if it's not there,
  upload a picture to Instagram to create it) in the tree and mark it to
  "Scan Always" (the blue circular arrow). This means that Picasa will
  hit that folder each time it scans for new content, and automagically
  import any pictures it finds. Click the OK button.
  
  Now in the Picasa program, look in the upper right. You'll see a spot
  to sign-in with your Google account. Do that, and make sure the Sync
  to Web switch for the Instagram photos folder is set to on. Open your
  Google+ page, and make sure the Instagram photos album is set up to be
  shared with the folks you want to share it with, and that's it.
  
  What's happening is that anytime you post a picture to your Instagram
  stream, the Instadrop web-app pushes it to the Instagram photos folder
  in your Dropbox. When your computer is on, Picasa uploads it to your
  Google+ album. Is it perfect? Not by a long shot. But it's a way to
  get that content merged without waiting for Google to have a public
  API for content posting and sharing on G+ from third party apps. 
  
  Note that these pictures aren't shared to your Google+ stream be
  default. Until we get some sort of G+ API from Google, that's not
  going to happen (at least not easily). But if you share your album,
  people can visit and check them out, and of course you can easily
  share a photo from the album yourself. Click on it and hit the Share
  button in the bottom right.