Anybody knows how to fix as issue with expired instagram media links ? Im parsing media and after a few days/weeks/hours the links are expired. Maybe there is a way to use this links or fix somehow?
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I had the same issue and this is how I solved it, in the instagram media api you can fetch the perma_link like https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt3QrphggBw/. Just add https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt3QrphggBw/media/?size=m. It will redirect to the proper image url.
All of the media links generated by instagram have timestamp components in them, ie. those links have an expiration time (not sure exactly how much but all of the links expire after some time). The workaround is either to keep refreshing the links by calling instagram api or to store the images somewhere and use that link.
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