Firstly, the Instagram API endpoint "tags" required OAuth authentication.
You can query results for a particular hashtag (snowy in this case) using the following url
It is rate limited to 5000 (X-Ratelimit-Limit:5000) per hour
https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/snowy/media/recent
Sample response
{
"pagination": {
"next_max_tag_id": "1370433362010",
"deprecation_warning": "next_max_id and min_id are deprecated for this endpoint; use min_tag_id and max_tag_id instead",
"next_max_id": "1370433362010",
"next_min_id": "1370443976800",
"min_tag_id": "1370443976800",
"next_url": "https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/snowy/media/recent?access_token=40480112.1fb234f.4866541998fd4656a2e2e2beaa5c4bb1&max_tag_id=1370433362010"
},
"meta": {
"code": 200
},
"data": [
{
"attribution": null,
"tags": [
"snowy"
],
"type": "image",
"location": null,
"comments": {
"count": 0,
"data": []
},
"filter": null,
"created_time": "1370418343",
"link": "http://instagram.com/p/aK1yrGRi3l/",
"likes": {
"count": 1,
"data": [
{
"username": "iri92lol",
"profile_picture": "http://images.ak.instagram.com/profiles/profile_404174490_75sq_1370417509.jpg",
"id": "404174490",
"full_name": "Iri"
}
]
},
"images": {
"low_resolution": {
"url": "http://distilleryimage1.s3.amazonaws.com/ecf272a2cdb311e2990322000a9f192c_6.jpg",
"width": 306,
"height": 306
},
"thumbnail": {
"url": "http://distilleryimage1.s3.amazonaws.com/ecf272a2cdb311e2990322000a9f192c_5.jpg",
"width": 150,
"height": 150
},
"standard_resolution": {
"url": "http://distilleryimage1.s3.amazonaws.com/ecf272a2cdb311e2990322000a9f192c_7.jpg",
"width": 612,
"height": 612
}
},
"users_in_photo": [],
"caption": {
"created_time": "1370418353",
"text": "#snowy",
"from": {
"username": "iri92lol",
"profile_picture": "http://images.ak.instagram.com/profiles/profile_404174490_75sq_1370417509.jpg",
"id": "404174490",
"full_name": "Iri"
},
"id": "471425773832908504"
},
"user_has_liked": false,
"id": "471425689728724453_404174490",
"user": {
"username": "iri92lol",
"website": "",
"profile_picture": "http://images.ak.instagram.com/profiles/profile_404174490_75sq_1370417509.jpg",
"full_name": "Iri",
"bio": "",
"id": "404174490"
}
}
}
You can play around here :
You need to use "Authentication" as OAuth 2 and will be prompted to signin via Instagram. Post that you might have to reneter the "tag-name" in "Template" section.
All the pagination related data is available in the "pagination" parameter in the response and use it's "next_url" to query for the next set of result.