I want to get the whole list of followers, which means iterating through the pages. However, I don't know whether instagram will ban me with too many requests too quickly. Does anyone know the rate restrictions on instagram?
Instagram's private API works like the app do, so you won't have the limits that the official API has, however, you still can't make as many requests, in that case Instagram will know and ban your account.
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I want to create giveaways which require the participants to follow the twitter account of the giveaway creator.
My first idea was to use the Twitter API (endpoint: "/2/users/:id/followers"). This works fine for me however I always run into rating limits. The API allows me to send 15 requests every 15 minutes and returns a maximum of 1000 users per request. Since many accounts have more then 15000 followers and since many request happen at the same time (many users want to participate in a giveaway) this solution is not suitable for me.
My secound idea was to use web scraping instead (e.g Node Fetch). I was following along this tutoria: However doing so I always run into the issue that Twitter uses random strings to name their html elements. You can see in the picture there is no defined class to grap the elements.
So my main question is how can I access these element ?
Random Follower of my Twitter Account
I also have a follow up question regarding the effictivness of this method. Assuming I have multiple people who want to particpate in a short amount of time (e.g 10 people in 5 minutes) and they all need to follow a big twitter account (e.g 100k followers).
Is it efficent to scrape all 100k followers each time or should I instead try to fetch the 100k followers once, safe them to my database and use my database to check for each user later ?
As a side note, I am using node.js and node-fetch, however I have no problems to switch the framework. In addition I think the grabbing of the element as well as the performance should be universal.
Thanks for your help :)
They're going to detect your servers excessive calls. There is a Twitter Developer Portal where you can request elevated access which may raise the limits for you.
https://developer.twitter.com
I'm posting a comment to a content on Instagram using Instagram API.
My app is registered and approved, so I was supposed to have 60 comments per hour (or at least 30, in case it is still in Sandbox mode).
I keep getting this message:
The maximum number of requests per hour has been exceeded. You
have made 23 requests of the 15 allowed in the last hour
I can't understand where does the 15 request allowed per hour came from.
Couldn't find it anywhere in the documentation as well.
Well, I would suggest you to go to the developer dashboard(MANAGE CLIENTS) page and report this issue. Its an option there. After that wait for a day and then check your mail. You might find a reply from them. As you have transitioned from the sandbox mode to active, the limit should increase and I hope they fix it for you
Just some ToC I found.
Instagram may rate limit or block apps that make a large number of
calls to the API that are not primarily in response to direct user
actions. Details Here
And also here
Display more than 30 Instagram photos or videos per page in your
application or use an unreasonable amount of bandwidth.Found Here
It sounds like they could acutely intent to limit your requests to preserve their bandwidth. 15 requests seems like a reasonable amount, if you contact them with a reason why you'd necessarily require more they might up this limit.
Also interestingly, they can change this if they see fit
Instagram may elect to provide you with support or modifications for
the Instagram APIs (collectively, "Support"), in its sole discretion,
and may terminate such Support at any time without notice to you.
Instagram may change, suspend, or discontinue any aspect of the
Instagram APIs at any time, including the availability of any
Instagram APIs. Instagram may also impose limits on certain features
and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Instagram
APIs or the Instagram Web site without notice or liability.Details Here
Hope this helps
is there a way to grab instagram users based on a specific hashtag ?
I run contests based on re posting photos with specified hashtag then randomly pick a winner, i need a tool that can grab the usernames of those who reposted that photo and used that hashtag.
You can query instagram using the API. There are official clients for both python and ruby.
You didn't specify what language/platform you are using, so I'll give you the generic approach.
Query instagram using the Tag Recent Media endpoint.
In the response, you will receive a user object that has the user's username, id, profile url, and so on. This should be enough to do what you are describing.
As far as tools, there aren't great options to probably do things exactly how you want. If you just want a simple contest, you could use statigram, but it's not free.
If you roll your own solution, I highly recommend you also do the following:
Implement a rate limiting mechanism such as a task queue so you don't exceed your API calls (5000 per hour for most calls). Also useful for failures/network hicups, etc.
Have users authenticate so you can use OAuth to extend your API calls to 5000/per user/hour to get around #1.
Try the subscribe API if there won't be many items. You can subscribe to a specific tag as well, and you will get a change notification. At that point though you need to retrieve the actual media item(s), and this can cost a lot of API calls depending on how frequent and what volume these changes occur.
If your users don't have much photos/relatively small/known in advance, you can actually query the user's recent media instead and filter in your own code by hash tag.
We require to get the followers data (profile metrics specially follower's friends count) for my client's accounts having more than 500k followers. Because of Instagram api limitation we can only do 5k calls /hour. Thats why, it is impossible to load all followers data for every day. But there are few products like web.stagram.com etc, which are also using the instagram api and making unlimited (or some greater num than allowed limit) calls.
Are these partners exempted by instagram?
Please update if there is a way to get higher api limit.
We are ready to pay amount for the higher limit.
Regards,
Parvendra Adhran
You have to try to get whitelisted to get a new Rate Limit, there's a long waiting list and Instagram has mentioned they won't be getting to the requests anytime soon.
I've heard of people still waiting over 2 months so far.
I created an iOS app that using Instagram API and have a critical issue posting likes to Instagram.
Using endpoint – POST /media/media-id/likes, with user-specific access token. I request scope – likes from users.
Instagram API works fine for all requests except saving likes. We can only save/post a couple hundred likes to Instagram, and then response is "We've taken extra measures to protect the Instagram API from abnormal activity. Since you have recently created your API application, please contact apidevelopers#instagram.com to receive whitelisting for a higher rate limit."
There is other developers with same issue with no support or any feedback waiting for months.
Please, let me know if there is limits and how it works, or how to become whitelisted
I don’t want to create many Instagram API clients and assign users among them. It seems like bad acting for me, if there is official API with strict limits I want to work with it.
Instagram has new API limits: 100 likes/hr 60 follows/unfollows/hr per access token. That is only if you authenticate serverside and sign your headers. Check out the new authentication: http://instagram.com/developer/authentication/
I'm using it for my new site that automates likes/follows/unfollows, haven't had any problems works great. Check it out: http://instapromobiz.com
Instagram takes increased measures to limit your API requests based on IP address. This is not common knowledge, it's just something I've come to know from working with the API extensively.
They've built an API that is FAR from perfect, but have been upgrading it to be "smart". Smart enough to know that a newer client, pinging the API many times just for one user, may very well be a script kiddie trying to bot the system. For this reason, they do not give you a rate limit error, they politely say "we have taken extra measures to protect our API from being spammed by bots".
The good news is, other users should still be able to access your liking mechanism. Just not you, from that IP.