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Ahsen
Ahsen

Reputation: 386

Instagram search hashtag with a period in it?

I'm using instagram api to search posts containing certain hashtags. I need to find a hashtag like "abc.com". My request url becomes https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/abc.com/media/recent?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN which gives 404. I've tried replacing . with %2E but it is not working. Any suggestion?

I'm using C# to send the request.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 980

Answers (1)

Adnan Ahmed
Adnan Ahmed

Reputation: 949

Ahsen Instagram tags do not contain "." in them. If you try to put it it breaks the tag to part that comes before it.

e.g. #abc.com - the tag will be #abc only

How ever you can use "_" in tags.

I think this is the reason you are getting 404.

Upvotes: 2

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