Fuck you Instagram

ig_scraper.php

<?php
$tag = 'horse';
$scrape  = scrape_ig_tag($tag);

function scrape_ig_tag($tag) {
    $ig_url = file_get_contents('https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/'.$tag.'/'); // instagrame tag url
    $shards = explode('window._sharedData = ', $ig_url);
    $ig_json = explode(';</script>', $shards[1]);
    $ig_data = json_decode($ig_json[0], TRUE);
    return $ig_data; // the whole shebang
}

$results = array();

//clean this crap
foreach($scrape['entry_data']['TagPage'][0]['tag']['media']['nodes'] as $crap){
    $results[] = array(
        'img' => $crap['thumbnail_src'],
        'dimensions' => $crap['dimensions'],
        'caption' => $crap['caption']
    );
}

foreach($results as $data){
    echo '<img src="' . $data['img'] . '" />';
}