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Mike
Mike

Reputation: 2044

No data from tag subscription - Instagram API

I have two streaming subscriptions with the Instagram API. One for type user and the second for type tag. Specifically, I'm using the tag nofilter.

For the user subscription, my server receives the following json from Instagram:

[ { changed_aspect: 'media',
    object: 'user',
    object_id: '99999999',
    time: 1447441353,
    subscription_id: 99999999,
    data: { media_id: '0000000000642770215_000000000' } } ]

For the nofilter tag subscription, my server receives the following json from Instagram. Why is this missing media_id?

[ { changed_aspect: 'media',
    object: 'tag',
    object_id: 'nofilter',
    time: 1447442900,
    subscription_id: 20700000,
    data: {} } ]

Does anyone know why the data attribute in the tag subscription is empty? Shouldn't it contain a media_id property and value?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 952

Answers (1)

Mike
Mike

Reputation: 2044

The documentation for tag subscriptions is no longer available. It appears only user subscriptions are available now. https://instagram.com/developer/subscriptions/

You can see the now deprecated documentation here. https://instagram.com/developer/deprecated/realtime/

Regardless, for reference, tag subscriptions are only a notification which you then need to query the tags endpoint to retrieve actual data.

Instagram Real time updates tag - getting empty data, why?

Upvotes: 2

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