Get all photos from Instagram which have a specific hashtag with PHP
To get all photos from Instagram that have a specific hashtag with PHP, you can use the Instagram API.
To use the Instagram API, you'll need to:
- Register as a developer on the Instagram Developer Platform
- Create an app and get an app ID and app secret
- Authenticate the app and get an access token
- Use the access token to make API requests to get the photos with the hashtag you specified
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Here's some sample code that demonstrates how to use the Instagram API to get photos with a specific hashtag:
<?php
// Replace YOUR_APP_ID and YOUR_APP_SECRET with your actual app ID and app secret
$app_id = 'YOUR_APP_ID';
$app_secret = 'YOUR_APP_SECRET';
// Replace YOUR_HASHTAG with the hashtag you want to search for
$hashtag = 'YOUR_HASHTAG';
// Get an access token by making a POST request to the Instagram API
$access_token_url = 'https://api.instagram.com/oauth/access_token';
$access_token_data = [
'client_id' => $app_id,
'client_secret' => $app_secret,
'grant_type' => 'client_credentials',
];
$curl = curl_init($access_token_url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $access_token_data);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
$result = json_decode($result);
$access_token = $result->access_token;
// Use the access token to make an API request to get the photos with the specified hashtag
$hashtag_url = 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/' . $hashtag . '/media/recent';
$hashtag_data = [
'access_token' => $access_token,
];
$curl = curl_init($hashtag_url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $hashtag_data);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
$result = json_decode($result);
// The $result variable now contains the data for the photos with the specified hashtag
// You can access the data for each photo like this:
foreach ($result->data as $photo) {
$photo_url = $photo->images->standard_resolution->url;
// Do something with the photo URL, like print it or save it to a database
print $photo_url . "\n";
}
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.