Instagram's public RSS stopped working

Question

My application uses Instagram's publicly accessible RSS API to get images with certain hashtags, i.e. where the syntax is the following:

http://instagram.com/tags/some-tag-you-want-to-follow/feed/recent.rss

But since Sept. 29, my application hasn't been receiving any data. When I point my browser at the URL, it gives me Instagram's 404 error. Try it on any feed:

http://instagram.com/tags/cats/feed/recent.rss

http://instagram.com/tags/food/feed/recent.rss

Is anyone else having this problem?

Answer 1

Same problem. Looks like Instagram ditched their .rss feed. Now using http://widget.websta.me/rss/tag/inserthashtaghere this

Answer 2

I also recommend Iconosquare (formerly Instagram) also provides RSS feeds.

http://iconosquare.com/feed/username
http://iconosquare.com/tagFeed/hashtag

The web interface is slightly less clunky than webstagram plus the stats are nice.