Get all user medias - Instagram

Question

I can get Instagram photos via public API with the code below (as seen in How to get all images of hashtag in Instagram without API?)

<?php

$baseUrl = 'https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/girls/?__a=1';
$url = $baseUrl;

while(1) {
    $json = json_decode(file_get_contents($url));
    print_r($json->tag->media->nodes);
    if(!$json->tag->media->page_info->has_next_page) break;
    $url = $baseUrl.'&max_id='.$json->tag->media->page_info->end_cursor;
}

However, this code is returned to me only 95 medias, even the user has 1000+ medias (any user)

There is something wrong?

Thanks

Answer 1

Why don't you use instagram-php-scraper?

You can install it via composer. Create a new dir on your server and type the following on your console:

composer require raiym/instagram-php-scraper

Then simply use:

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use InstagramScraper\Instagram;
$medias = Instagram::getMediasByTag('pedro', 200);
header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode($medias);

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Check all the available methods:

https://github.com/postaddictme/instagram-php-scraper/blob/master/README.md