Instagram Tags endpoint results type differ from expected

[gloob]

Hi,

I'm starting to use this library for an Instagram search service into a Telegram bot gfxBot. Because the only searchable entity is Tags, I'm using it extensively.

Currently the Tags part is failing, by whatever reason Instagram is returning this JSON structure for search method:

https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/search?q=test&access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN

{
   "meta":{
      "code":200
   },
   "data":[
      {
         "media_count":1674374.0,
         "name":"test"
      },

      ... more values ...

      {
         "media_count":24839.0,
         "name":"testtrack"
      }
   ]
}

https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/test&access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN

{
   "meta":{
      "code":200
   },
   "data":{
      "media_count":1675998,
      "name":"test"
   }
}

In the tags search results is returning the media_count with dot notation making the go json parser to fail, as this:

Tags.Search returned error: json: cannot unmarshal number 1674374.0 into Go value of type int

I didn't find anything useful in the Instagram developers documentation about this difference and maybe its a bug in their side or just the way they are generating the number value for media_count in search method.

[carbocation]

Eww, you're right: They are now returning floats, rather than integers, for the media_count. That's nonsensical, breaking, and will require type conversions in our code if they are going to continue using floats.

[carbocation]

Is this resolved by Instagram? Their demo responses look correct now.

[gloob]

Just checked, it seems they are returning integers again. Although it seems that the second request of my initial comment is not working, probably they are changing the API too. Anyway we can close this.

Thanks!

[carbocation]

Thanks. Issue fixed by Instagram.