I need fetch instagram posts by tag every n minutes.. I use
https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/MYTAG/media/recent?access_token=xx.xxxx
ok, but I don't want to get the same posts every time, I want just to fetch only the new posts.. I thought to use a param.. (for example created_time), save it, and to use it like a filter param in the next request, to save the created_time field of the last post.. save it, repeat this.
but API only allow this parameters:
PARAMETERS
COUNT Count of tagged media to return.
MIN_TAG_ID Return media before this min_tag_id.
MAX_TAG_ID Return media after this max_tag_id.
Then I thought using MIN_TAG_ID in the request instead of Created_time, but the TAG_ID is not found in the api's response json ... (I can filter by TAG_ID but TAG_ID not come in the response. Unusual!!)
Any ideas?
In the response it is simply called id not tag_id
I recomend you to use subscriptions. And you will process new posts in real-time.
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Looking at https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/users/ I have gathered that calling https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/media/recent/?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN will return "the most recent media published by the owner of the access_token."
In sandbox mode I understand that I will receive a maximum of 20 media items from this call. I also realize that the response code has a pagination object that I can use to retrieve up to 20 more media items (see below)
"pagination": {
"next_max_tag_id": "1387272337517",
"deprecation_warning": "next_max_id and min_id are deprecated for this endpoint; use min_tag_id and max_tag_id instead",
"next_max_id": "1387272337517",
"next_min_id": "1387272345517",
"min_tag_id": "1387272345517",
"next_url": "https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/cats/media/recent?access_token=xxx&max_tag_id=1387272337517"
}
These are the listed parameters of this Request.
PARAMETERS
ACCESS_TOKEN A valid access token.
MAX_ID Return media earlier than this max_id.
MIN_ID Return media later than this min_id.
COUNT Count of media to return.
My question is: Is there a way to structure my GET request in a way that returns all media items from a single call? I understand that this is not possible in sandbox mode, given a user with more than 20 media items. If possible please provide a detailed explanation of the COUNT parameter.
I imagine a possible GET request would look like https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/media/recent/?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN?COUNT=X
Thank you. <3
When you go live mode you can use the count= param to get more than 20 in one API call, however I have noticed that count=33 is the maximum you can get for this API call, even if you anything more than 33, it only returns 33.
You still have to use the pagination in JSON response to get the next set of media items, easiest way is to use the pagination.next_url to make API call and get next set of media items
I need to iterate through particular user's likes using API below
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/media/liked
How can I skip what i have read before? there is a "max_like_id" parameter, but i need to get "the newest likes" just after some particular id.
Already tried "min_like_id", but still all likes are returned.
There is no min_like_id for this endpoint.
You can do this manually:
save the media_id of the first photo that is loaded on from the API
create a function to load only newest, this should get API response and iterate thru the media objects and compare with the saved media_id in step 1
if there is no match, prepend the media to the list, if there is match then break out of the loop, and update the variable that saved the media_id in step 1 to the first media_id in step 2
I'm using the YouTube Search API to grab 5 videos per time under a specific keyword. But I've been trying and trying, but couldent find the parameter for the start index. Does anyone know how to add it, so it gets the next 5 videos etc..?
Current URL I have:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&q=wiz+khalifa&type=video&key=AIzaSyB9UW36sMDA9rja_J0ynSYVcNY4G25
In the results of your first query, you should get back a nextPageToken field.
When you make the request for the next page, you must send this value as the pageToken.
So you need to add pageToken=XXXXX to your query, where XXXXX is the value you received in nextPageToken.
Hope this helps
I have read several postings about the fact that the Instagram API returns only 20 results at a time. In many cases, people have suggested that all you need to do is to use the next URL which is returned in the pagination information. I would be fine with that, but the JSON returned by
https://api.instagram.com/v1/locations/search?
does not appear to have any pagination information. I have seen a posting that says that /media/search does not support pagination. I just wanted to confirm that the same is true for /locations/search. Can anyone confirm?
And if this is correct, does anyone have any thoughts about how you can get a list of all Instagram events in a specific area, rather than just the first 20 or so?
/media/search end point does not have pagination, but you can get next set of 20 pics by using url param max_timestamp, get the created_time of the last photo in api response and apply it as max_timestamp for next url call, it will return the next 20. Thats how I implemented here: http://www.gramfeed.com/instagram/map
for locations/search end point, timestamp does not apply, you can change distance url param and get more results: http://www.gramfeed.com/instagram/places
I am using the Instagram API to fetch a list of photos tagged with a certain hashtag. I've got a real-time subscription set up so it will notify me whenever new photos have been posted. However, I have to fetch the new results myself.
My problem: When I request the list of recently tagged photos, I get a large list and I don't want to process all of the results in the recent list every time I do this. The api docs say I can pass these optional parameters, but they seem counter-intuitive. They seem to be the opposite of what I would expect:
MIN_ID Return media before this min_id.
MAX_ID Return media after this max_id.
If I keep track of the most recent media id I've seen in my recent requests, how do I construct my next request to only return results newer than that id?
I've posted two photos with a test hashtag. When I use the following url (with my real access_token in it), I get back a json response listing both of those photos:
https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/weirdtest/media/recent?access_token=xxx
The two photos have these ids:
221201236060507271_179249322
221190263853517857_179249322
How do I construct a query that returns only the newer of those two photos?
Tack the most recent ID you've seen on the end, using the MAX_ID request parameter:
https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/weirdtest/media/recent?access_token=xxx&MAX_ID=221201236060507271_179249322
This should tell Instagram, *"The most recent photo I've seen is 221201236060507271_179249322, return only newer photos"*.