null.jpg being returned for carousel posts via Instagram API

Question

It looks like the Instagram API does not support the new Instagram carousel feature. The images results only contain https://instagramstatic-a.akamaihd.net/null.jpg and not the cover image.

Any ideas how to retrieve these via the API?

Answer 1

UPDATE: Since last Monday (April 24) we are receiving posts of type "carousel" containing the property "carousel_media" with all the carousel images.

Response example: https://jsonformatter.org/89e2fd

We have the same problem from yesterday.

We have added a workaround to the code to avoid problems, we will discard this posts until Instagram fixes the problem. If the value of the property 'type' is 'video' we check that the property 'videos' exists, in PHP:

if ($item->type === 'video' && !isset($item->videos)) { your code }

I think that the only way to get the right content now (until the problem is solved) is to scrap the page (with curl, for example) and get the image from the html.