使用Instagram Python API获取媒体

Question

I want to be able to list out the URLs of recent media items from an authorized account. This is the first time I've ever tried using the Python-Instagram API. I have all sensitive variables filled out in the following snippet.

from instagram.client import InstagramAPI
from urllib.request import urlopen
import json

access_token = ""
client_secret = ""
api = InstagramAPI(access_token=access_token, client_secret=client_secret)

user_id = ""

def get_media():
    request = 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/{USERID}/media/recent/?access_token={ACCESS_TOKEN}'
    response = urlopen(request).read().decode('utf8')
    obj = json.loads(response)

    for i in obj['data']['link']:
        print (i['link'])

This returns absolutely nothing.

print (obj) returns the json in plain text. (is this the proper way of doing things? Or are there calls in the API that do this like api.get_recent_media() ?

Answer 1

The API provides a user_recent_media method. This is the example given in the docs on how to use it:

recent_media, next_ = api.user_recent_media()
photos = []
for media in recent_media:
    photos.append('<img src="%s"/>' % media.images['thumbnail'].url)

The format of the response can be gleaned from the endpoint documentation .