Instagram empty string for every bio in user object

Question

I've tried, both via an API library in Python and the API console that Instagram and apigee.com provide.

I use the request: GET /tags/tag-name/media/recent. I tried ferrari tag.

All results populate perfectly, except the bio field of the user for each media result from the tag request.

Here are a couple of result snippets:

"full_name": "AвтоСпаСтудия",
"bio": "",
"id": "435889630"
...

"full_name": "jacky_mitchell",
"bio": "",
"id": "1527609678"

They all have blank bio fields. The website fields are also blank for the record.

Someone else had the same issue in the old Instagram group.

I might have to ditch this half-working API and sniff the TCP/IP traffic and do some raw requests.

Answer 1

The endpoints to get the bio and website fields are /users/<user-id> and /users/self.

There was a bug where some endpoints containing the user node would have empty bio and website fields. Those endpoints don't return those fields anymore. The sample responses in the docs have also been updated to reflect the change.

Source: http://developers.instagram.com/post/112826291271/api-bug-fixes