Tag feed endpoint 404 / no longer supported

[adventurist]

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Description

The "tag" feed endpoint is no longer in service. <repo>/dist/core/feed.factory.d.ts:24

Code

ig      = new IgApiClient()
// do successful login/sync
const response = await this.ig.feed.tag("animals");
const payload  = await response.items()

Error and Output

[16:24:37.922] ERROR (2667604): GET /api/v1/feed/tag/animals/?rank_token=f503fa57-d84f-5b65-b973-66293f1e78b9 - 404 Not Found; 
    err: {
      "type": "IgNotFoundError",
      "message": "GET /api/v1/feed/tag/animals/?rank_token=f503fa57-d84f-5b65-b973-66293f1e78b9 - 404 Not Found; ",
      "stack":
          IgNotFoundError: GET /api/v1/feed/tag/animals/?rank_token=f503fa57-d84f-5b65-b973-66293f1e78b9 - 404 Not Found; 
              at Request.handleResponseError (/data/stronglogic/kgram/node_modules/instagram-private-api/dist/core/request.js:103:20)
              at Request.send (/data/stronglogic/kgram/node_modules/instagram-private-api/dist/core/request.js:54:28)
              at async TagFeed.request (/data/stronglogic/kgram/node_modules/instagram-private-api/dist/feeds/tag.feed.js:21:26)
              at async TagFeed.items (/data/stronglogic/kgram/node_modules/instagram-private-api/dist/feeds/tag.feed.js:32:26)
    }

Solution/Workaround

Thankfully, the "tags" feed DOES work. Which I learned while troubleshooting just now. Nevertheless, the "tag" feed should be updated or removed.

Thanks for all the great work!

[pdahlenburg]

Can confirm that several endpoints of ig.feed are no longer available

[kentdtran]

tags worked for me thank you @adventurist

[LouisDeconinck]

@adventurist or @kentdtran When I try the workaround using the "tags" feed, I don't get anything: ig.feed.tags("animals", "top");

When using 'recent', instead of 'top' it works. But I'd like to get the top ones.

This get met this, with no posts:

TagsFeed {
  attemptOptions: {
    delay: 60000,
    factor: 1.5,
    maxAttempts: 10,
    minDelay: 60000,
    maxDelay: 300000,
    jitter: true
  },
  rankToken: 'xxx-xxx-',
  nextMediaIds: [],
  tag: 'animals',
  tab: 'top'
}

Does it still work for you? Do you use another workaround? Could you please share a code snippet?

Thank you very much!