How do I search Instagram's api for emojis

Question

I'm trying to make a call like

$url = 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/'.$tag.'/media/recent?client_id='.$client_id;

but where the $tag is I want to pass in an emoji in order to get results back for emojis. I've tried .....

$tag = 'U+1F601';

$tag = '\xF0\x9F\x98\x81';

$tag = '\x{1F601}';

Any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

Try a query like https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%8C/media/recent?client_id=

where %D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%8C is an urlencode word (or emoji).

For the example this is an utf-8 encoding word. So you should add

$tag=urlencode($tag);

before query. And $tag should be in right encoding.