Access to the user's reels media feed highlight story (Get all user's stories) by `mgp25/Instagram-API` project

Question

I use mgp25/Instagram-API release ^5.0 stable version.

I need to get all medias of the user's story.

I have this code:

$user = 'instagram';
$userId = $ig->people->getUserIdForName($user);
$feedId = $ig->highlight->getUserFeed($userId)->getTray()[0]->getId();
var_dump( $ig->story->getReelsMediaFeed($feedId)->getReels() );

Result (data is in the _objectData private method):

object(InstagramAPI\Response\Model\UnpredictableKeys\ReelUnpredictableContainer)#1453 (4) {
  ["_type":protected]=>
  string(33) "\InstagramAPI\Response\Model\Reel"
  ["_cache":protected]=>
  NULL
  ["_compiledPropertyMapLink":"LazyJsonMapper\LazyJsonMapper":private]=>
  &array(0) {
  }
  ["_objectData":"LazyJsonMapper\LazyJsonMapper":private]=>
  array(1) {
    ["highlight:17907400474216512"]=>
    array(13) {
      ["id"]=>
      string(27) "highlight:17907400474216512"
      ["latest_reel_media"]=>
      int(1520611200)
      ["seen"]=>
      NULL
:
:

I try this code:

var_dump( $ig->story->getReelsMediaFeed($feedId)->getReels()[$feedId] );

I get this error:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot use object of type InstagramAPI\Response\Model\UnpredictableKeys\ReelUnpredictableContainer as array in...

And also I try this code:

var_dump( $ig->highlight->getUserFeed($userId)->getTray()[0]->getItems() );

But return NULL.

I can use jsonSerialize() or same methods:

var_dump( $ig->story->getReelsMediaFeed($feedId)->getReels()->jsonSerialize()->$feedId );

But I don't like it, and this is a funny way that will disappear as the class and form of the structure also disappear.

What's your standard solution?

Answer 1

From looking at the source code, you want to use the getData() method of InstagramAPI\Response\Model\UnpredictableKeys\ReelUnpredictableContainer

$reels = $ig->story->getReelsMediaFeed($feedId)->getReels()->getData();

The getData() method (from CoreUnpredictableContainer) converts the data into an instance of the $_type property.

$reels is now an instance of InstagramAPI\Response\Model\Reel. It's unclear what data you want from that but the API is defined pretty well in the class itself, eg

$items = $reels->getItems();
$location = $reels->getLocation();
// etc