How do I get the next page of data from a instagram tag look up

Question

I can enter the following url to get all the IG posts with the #losangeles tag in them by going/requesting the following endpoint:

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/losangeles/?__a=1

In the json data returned from this url i can see the page_info attribute and within it there is the has_next_page attribute and that is set equal to true. My question is how do I ammend the above url to get to the next page, and the one after that, and so until I check has_next_page and it is false.

It seemed intuitive to try

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/losangeles/?__a=2

and

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/losangeles/?__b=1

But neither seem to work. I suspect maybe the end_cursor attribute in the data returned from the original url may be a clue as to what url I need to go to to get to the next page but am not sure. Does anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

This is possible. Each response includes an end_cursor parameter. In your next request add a max_id parameter using the value of end_cursor, like so: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/losangeles/?__a=1&max_id=<value>.

I have a working example here written in react/axios: https://codepen.io/ghostreef/pen/ZrKrXX. My example pulls from a user account, so my response xml is different. The end_cursor for tags is at data.graphql.hashtag.edge_hashtag_to_media.page_info.end_cursor and the image data is at data.graphql.hashtag.edge_hashtag_to_media.edges and you'll have to iterate over the nodes.