Weird behaviour with instagram tagged posts

[zachpeter]

I ran into some odd behaviour and I'm just wondering if you have any idea.

Basically, I've been saving some Instagram tagged posts from a profile and it's been working amazingly but it's reached a point where the cursor doesn't continue but instead of returning to the start like you would expect, it goes to a cursor point halfway through. And what's weirder is after some time (seems to be around a day from what I can tell) the cursor finds 1 more cursor before breaking into the loop again.

I can't imagine what would cause this behaviour but I would take a guess it's the API. Nevertheless I assume you would know more that me so figured I would ask you anyway if you had any clue as to what I could do / where I could ask.

[mikf]

but I would take a guess it's the API

Seems like it. The API call for max_id: 2521628374533114575 returns a couple of 296... posts in the same batch after several other 252... posts instead of signaling an actual pagination end.

{
      "taken_at": 1614815883,
      "pk": "2521580848874395776",
},
{
      "taken_at": 1667267829,
      "pk": "2961579667514662360",
},

(or from urls.txt)

...
2021-03-03 23:58:03 https://www.instagram.com/p/CL-dGwRlhiA/
2022-11-01 01:57:09 https://www.instagram.com/p/CkZpQQ4Ox3Y/
...

Should be possible to catch such cases and manually stop.

if posts[-1]["pk"] > params["max_id"]:
    break

[zachpeter]

I'm wondering what causes that though in the API because I'm trying to get posts older than what its stopping at. I would have thought that is the limit of the API but everyday it expands by 1 post so that is very confusing. Would you know anyway of getting the next cursor?

[mikf]

cursor values for /tagged/ are just numeric post IDs (post_id) to start from it seems, so you might be able to manually use the lowest post_id returned to get older posts. 2521580848874395776 is the lowest ID I get before it jumps back up to 2961579667514662360, so try -o cursor=2521580848874395776.

-o cursor=\"2521834487413523086\"

You don't need to use \" anymore: 9b59af8

[zachpeter]

YES THANK YOU SO MUCH I LOVE YOU