I need to consume the Instagram API to search posts with a hashtag set and extract the following information:
- User
- Number of likes
- Number of followers
- Post date
As of Jul / 2016, however, you will need to use an access token to retrieve the user's public data.
The problem is that I currently only need client_id to get the information, so I set up a cronjob that runs a script that in turn calls the API and writes the data to the database.
https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/{tag}/media/recent?client_id=<CLIENT_ID>
However with the new API it is necessary to obtain an access token and this is manual, the client must authorize access to the data.
https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/{tag}/media/recent?access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>
With this new API, will the client always have to authorize the application?
If yes, this does not make sense if the data is public.