mineur/instagram-parser

# Setup
## Installation
```shell
composer require mineur/instagram-parser:dev-master
```

## How to get your query hash (old: query id)
Instagram uses GraphQL for its API, and needs a mandatory parameter named 
`query_hash` to make the internal requests.

> Instagram also supports a parameter named `query_id` but since
> there is no easy way to get one, we'll keep the `query_hash` parameter
> instead.

This is an easy method to get your query hash. Once you get one, you don't need 
to worry about this anymore.

1. Run your browser and type `http://www.instagram.com/github/`.
<img src="img/github-page.png" alt="Instagram Github page" width="500">

2. Then, go to `Web Inspector > Network > xhr`.
<img src="img/web-inspector.png" alt="Chrome web inspector" width="500">

3. Scroll down the page and click on **Load more** blue button.
<img src="img/load-more.png" alt="Instagram load more" width="500">

4. Take a look at the following xhr query:
<img src="img/xhr-queries.png" alt="Instagram xhr queries" width="500">

5. Copy the param `query_hash` like so, and keep it to build the parser.
<img src="img/query-hash.png" alt="Instagram xhr queries" width="500">

## You're done!
Now you can go back with your query hash: [home readme](../README.md)

> Attention! Query hashes may change depending on the endpoint your
> are fetching. For example, `userMediaParser` endpoint may need a
> different hash than `locationParser` endpoint.