Workaround for new Instagram API restriction for tagged content

Question

I built a module for my company's marketing team to fetch all the photos based on a hashtag. Such as #nofilter.

I was using the URL https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/nofilter/media/recent with no problems until Instagram decided to change their API authentication to OAuth.

I followed the new guidelines but my client is still in sandbox mode and the API call doesn't return anything anymore. All it returns is:

{"pagination": {"deprecation_warning": "next_max_id and min_id are deprecated for this endpoint; use min_tag_id and max_tag_id instead"}, "meta": {"code": 200}, "data": []}

It seems like I need to submit my application to be reviewed before going live. But this doesn't seem possible, based on what i found from their submission guideline below. Is there any workaround for this?

====== UPDATE July 8th, 2016

I have found one of those 3rd parties that instagram mentioned, but the pricing is awful https://www.dialogfeed.com/pricing/

189 euros per month seem a bit steep

Answer 1

I had to deal with this. Their documentation is pretty unhelpful and doesn't seem to offer any solution for someone just wanting to collect relevant links, which should be no prob.

Fortunately, the script on an Instagram page provides easy access to their structured data. In my rails app I create a headless browser and just hit their url. I provided my solution as an answer to another question:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/38572893/4888422