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Instagram – How to get media based on a given hashtag? – Facebook api

I am trying to write an Instagram app which among others will let me get media based on a hashtag.
I already finished it, and only then noticed this message from Instagram in the developer page.

Starting 10/1/2017, all permissions other than the basic permission will be unavailable to submit for or obtain.

Query by hashtag needs the public_content permission.
Looks like this is not possible anymore.

Are there any other options? I tried to look for similar functionality with Facebook graph api but didn’t find anything interesting.

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  1. 0

    Id love to know about this as well, we have been developing and didnt know about the cut off to these permissions. Looking for a solution to retrieve public images based on a hashtag.

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  2. 0

    Try this PHP library:
    https://github.com/postaddictme/instagram-php-scraper

    or Java library:
    https://github.com/postaddictme/instagram-java-scraper

    Example:

    https://github.com/postaddictme/instagram-php-scraper/blob/master/examples/getMediasByTag.php

    require __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

$instagram = InstagramScraperInstagram::withCredentials('username', 'password', '/path/to/cache/folder');
$instagram->login();

$medias = $instagram->getMediasByTag('youneverknow', 20);
$media = $medias[0];
echo "Media info:n";
echo "Id: {$media->getId()}n";
echo "Shotrcode: {$media->getShortCode()}n";
echo "Created at: {$media->getCreatedTime()}n";
echo "Caption: {$media->getCaption()}n";
echo "Number of comments: {$media->getCommentsCount()}";
echo "Number of likes: {$media->getLikesCount()}";
echo "Get link: {$media->getLink()}";
echo "High resolution image: {$media->getImageHighResolutionUrl()}";
echo "Media type (video or image): {$media->getType()}";
$account = $media->getOwner();
echo "Account info:n";
echo "Id: {$account->getId()}n";
echo "Username: {$account->getUsername()}n";
echo "Full name: {$account->getFullName()}n";
echo "Profile pic url: {$account->getProfilePicUrl()}n";
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  3. 0

    According to the blog post on facebook, they will be deprecating public content apis on December 11, 2018.

    https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/01/30/instagram-graph-api-updates/

    I also didn’t find anything on the graph api for this use case so it looks like you will be out of luck.

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