attempts to bypass instagram's 20 posts per request by automatically cycling through until it reaches given min timestamp (24 hours prior @ time of posting). also attempts to bypass shitty python api wrapper by manually calling the api and extracting the timestamp of the last post in each batch. for some reason, getting caught in an infinite loo…

bkk2.py

from urllib2 import urlopen
import datetime

from instagram.client import InstagramAPI
import six

api = InstagramAPI(
        client_id='adeb7a8be4d0463b8bae5e12df37145e',
        client_secret='428e9e381d3e4a9298a307fd322aaf24',
        access_token='181028960.adeb7a8.43b0ef71f8df44cda7e75c6e10740672'
    )

day_count = 0

def search(max_timestamp):

    global more_media
    more_media = api.media_search(
            lat='13.7246005',
            lng='100.6331108',
            max_timestamp=max_timestamp
        )

def count(collection):

    for img in collection:
        global day_count
        day_count += 1
        print "Found {0} photos so far...".format(day_count)

def mark():

    print "Last get created " + (
        datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(
            max_timestamp
        ).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
    )

def get_data(collection):

    last = collection[-1]
    label, value = str(last).split()

    last_data = urlopen(
      'https://api.instagram.com/v1/media/{0}?access_token=181028960.adeb7a8.43b0ef71f8df44cda7e75c6e10740672'.format(value)
    )

    for page in last_data:
        start_value = page.find('created_time') + 15
        end_value = start_value + 10
        global max_timestamp
        max_timestamp = int(page[start_value:end_value])

# START #
recent_media = api.media_search(
        lat='13.7246005',
        lng='100.6331108'
    )

count(recent_media)
get_data(recent_media)

# LOOP #
for trial in range(1,100):
    if max_timestamp > 1443454200:
        search(max_timestamp)
        count(more_media)
        get_data(more_media)
        mark()
    else:
        break

# END #
week_count = day_count * 7

print "{0} photos total found in the last 24 hours. That's {1} in a week.".format(
                                                            day_count,
                                                            week_count
                                                        )