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Instagram is an empty line for each biography in the user object

I tried both through the API library in Python and in the API console provided by Instagram and apigee.com.

I use the request: GET /tags/tag-name/media/recent . I tried the ferrari tag.

All results are filled out perfectly, except for the user's bio field for each multimedia result from the tag request.

Here are some snippets of results:

 "full_name": "A", "bio": "", "id": "435889630" ... "full_name": "jacky_mitchell", "bio": "", "id": "1527609678"

All empty bio fields. Page margins are also blank for writing.

Someone had the same problem in an old Instagram group .

I may have to abandon this semi-working API and sniff the TCP / IP traffic and make some raw requests.

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The endpoints for getting the bio and website fields are /users/<user-id> and /users/self .

An error occurred in which some endpoints containing the user node would have empty bio and website fields. These endpoints no longer return these fields. The sample responses in the documents have also been updated to reflect this change.

Source: http://developers.instagram.com/post/112826291271/api-bug-fixes

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Following the examples in the Instagram API Docs , the following is expected:

 "user": { "username": "emohatch", "profile_picture": "http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/profiles/profile_1242695_75sq_1293915800.jpg", "id": "1242695", "full_name": "Dave" }

The only workaround is to get complete information for each user (for which you really need a biography), and try to cache the results so as not to go beyond their speed limits.

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