Using curl for social media counts

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Hi there, 

 

I am using curl to output counts of various social media likes etc.  I have successfully used the code below for Facebook and Twitter but am struggling to get the value of an Instagram count for a specific hashtag.

 

The code I have been using (twitter shares example) is:

 

$ch = curl_init("https://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://www.1millionmilesforellie.co.uk");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

$sure = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

 

$infor = json_decode($sure);

 

$twitShar= $infor->count;

 

This works perfectly.  Using the link in a browser tells me:

{"count":0,"url":"http:\/\/www.1millionmilesforellie.co.uk\/"}    and I am able to access the 0 value with the code above.

 

 

For instagram I am trying to do the same (I have my access token and the link works in the browser but I have just hidden it below) but I can't seem to get the value of media_count with this code:

 

 

 

$ch = curl_init("https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/1mmilesforellie?access_token=MYACCESSTOKEN");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

$hash = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

 

$tags = json_decode($hash);

 

$insta= $tags->media_count;

 

 

When I input the link into the browser it gives me the following:

 

{"meta":{"code":200},"data":{"media_count":1,"name":"1mmilesforellie"}}

 

I am just trying to get the value of media_count into the variable $insta but it doesn't seem to be working.  Is it because there are braces around "data" value?  Do I need to do something differently than in the Twitter example?

 

Thanks for your help!

[fastsol]

$tags->data->madia_count

[Sitesfo2]

Superb - thanks