Instagram PHP API - how to get MIN_TAG_ID and MAX_TAG_ID

Question

Guys I'm working on the Instagrams API to get all images with a specific tag.

Here is my code:

<?PHP function callInstagram($url) { $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt_array($ch, array( CURLOPT_URL => $url, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => 2 )); $result = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); return $result; } $tag = 'sweden'; $client_id = "XXXX"; $url = 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/'.$tag.'/media/recent?client_id='.$client_id; $inst_stream = callInstagram($url); $results = json_decode($inst_stream, true); //Now parse through the $results array to display your results... foreach($results['data'] as $item){ $image_link = $item['images']['thumbnail']['url']; $Profile_name = $item['user']['username']; echo '<div style="display:block;float:left;">'.$Profile_name.' <br> <img src="'.$image_link.'" /></div>'; } 

With this code, I get 20 images tagged with sweden .

I need to know how I can get min_tag_id and max_tag_id for this tag so that I can do something like pagination.

So can you give me any advice how can I get the id of the last message / image displayed?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

From instagram docs:

 PAGINATION Sometimes you just can't get enough. For this reason, we've provided a convenient way to access more data in any request for sequential data. Simply call the url in the next_url parameter and we'll respond with the next set of data. { ... "pagination": { "next_url": "https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/puppy/media/recent?access_token=fb2e77d.47a0479900504cb3ab4a1f626d174d2d&max_id=13872296", "next_max_id": "13872296" } } On views where pagination is present, we also support the "count" parameter. Simply set this to the number of items you'd like to receive. Note that the default values should be fine for most applications - but if you decide to increase this number there is a maximum value defined on each endpoint. 

https://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/

Answer 2

The Instagram API returns the key "pagination" with the nodes "next_url" and "next_max_id". Change your code so that if $result['pagination']['next_url'] != '' , The loop continues.

Documentation here: https://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/