Get instagram images 2018-10-16

instagram.php

function getInstagramImages($username, $limit = 5) {
	$url = 'https://www.instagram.com/'.$username;
	$response = file_get_contents($url);
	if (!preg_match('|<script type="text\/javascript">window\._sharedData = (.*?);<\/script>|sim', $response, $matches)) {
	    return [];
	}
	$json = json_decode($matches[1], true);
	$edges = $json['entry_data']['ProfilePage'][0]['graphql']['user']['edge_owner_to_timeline_media']['edges'];
	$images = [];
	for($i = 0; $i<$limit; $i++) {
	    if (isset($edges[$i])) {
	        $images['https://www.instagram.com/p/'.$edges[$i]['node']['shortcode']] = $edges[$i]['node']['thumbnail_resources'][0]['src'];
	    }
	}
  
	return $images;
}