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Dev version of instaR package: Access to Instagram API via R
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searchInstagram - Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) #13

Closed mobcdi closed 9 years ago

mobcdi commented 9 years ago

When I run the following command it starts to return values but then errors out

Comments <- searchInstagram(tag="MySearchTerm",token = my_oauth, n=500) 20 posts 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 198
Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : Couldn't resolve host name

If I change n=100 the command returns a dataframe successfully but if you search directly on instragram you can see that n could be larger (with my search query over 300 items were tagged)

Running n =198 works but n=199 returns the error message above

pablobarbera commented 9 years ago

This commit fixes the bug that was giving the error message. However, I think the total number of pictures you receive back is lower than what the website reports because on the website you may be able to see private pictures from people you follow, and the tag count includes private pictures as well. I double checked and this function does return everything that the API returns, so if there's any difference, Instagram is to blame! :)

pablobarbera commented 9 years ago

And thanks again for reporting this!