Why can't acces to instagram recent media? - instagram

Question

I am working with instagram api, to get top media and recent media, i don't have problems calling top media, but 2 days ago i implemented this and called 3 last recent media to my page,
today like 1 hour ago i only could see 1 of three last media i called and now after 1 hour can't see any of them when i print the array who contains recent media it says its empty i don't know why.
Checking calls from my application graphic it doesn't show a big traffic, so i think it's not the problem because i can see top media.
<?php
include 'define.php';
function makeApiCall($endpoint, $type, $params)
{
$ch = curl_init();
if ('POST' == $type) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $endpoint);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($params));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
} elseif ('GET' == $type) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $endpoint . '?' . http_build_query($params));
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return json_decode($response, true);
}
$hashtag = 'sedapal';
$hashtagId = '17843308429009249';
$hashtagSearchEndpoingFormat = ENDPOINT_BASE . 'ig_hashtag_search?user_id={user-id}&q={hashtag-name}&fields=id,name';
$hashtagDataEndpointFormat = ENDPOINT_BASE . '{hashtag-id}?fields=id,name';
$hashtagTopMediaEndpointFormat = ENDPOINT_BASE . '{ig-hashtag-id}/top_media?user_id={user-id}&fields=id,caption,children,comments_count,like_count,media_type,media_url,permalink';
$hashtagRecentEndpointFormat = ENDPOINT_BASE . '{ig-hashtag-id}/recent_media?user_id={user-id}&fields=id,caption,children,comments_count,like_count,media_type,media_url,permalink';
$hashtagSearchEndpoint = ENDPOINT_BASE . 'ig_hashtag_search';
$hashtagSearchParams = array(
'user_id' => $instagramAccountId,
'fields' => 'id,name',
'q' => $hashtag,
'access_token' => $accessToken
);
$hashtagSearch = makeApiCall($hashtagSearchEndpoint, 'GET', $hashtagSearchParams);
/* To get hashtagID */
/* echo '<pre>';
print_r($hashtagSearch);
die(); */
$hashtagDataEndpoint = ENDPOINT_BASE . $hashtagId;
$hashtagDataParams = array(
'fields' => 'id,name',
'access_token' => $accessToken
);
$hashtagData = makeApiCall($hashtagDataEndpoint, 'GET', $hashtagDataParams);
$hashtagTopMediaEndpoint = ENDPOINT_BASE . $hashtagId . '/top_media';
$hashtagTopMediaParams = array(
'user_id' => $instagramAccountId,
'fields' => 'id,caption,children,comments_count,like_count,media_type,media_url,permalink',
'access_token' => $accessToken
);
$hashtagTopMedia = makeApiCall($hashtagTopMediaEndpoint, 'GET', $hashtagTopMediaParams);
$topPost = $hashtagTopMedia['data'][0];
$topPost1 = $hashtagTopMedia['data'][1];
$hashtagRecentEndpoint = ENDPOINT_BASE . $hashtagId . '/recent_media';
$hashtagRecentParams = array(
'user_id' => $instagramAccountId,
'fields' => 'id,caption,children,comments_count,like_count,media_type,media_url,permalink',
'access_token' => $accessToken
);
$hashtagRecent = makeApiCall($hashtagRecentEndpoint, 'GET', $hashtagRecentParams);
$recentPost = $hashtagRecent['data'][0];
/* $recentPost2 = $hashtagRecent['data'][1];
$recentPost3 = $hashtagRecent['data'][2]; */
?>
<p><?php echo json_encode($hashtagRecent['data']) ?></p>

Answer 1

That's because recent_media "Only returns media objects published within 24 hours of query execution", as said in the recent_media documentation.
The posts you couldn't see anymore were probably older than 24 hours the second time you fetched them.
top_posts will return posts no matter how old they are.
I struggled with this too and that was what happened to me.