How to get query_hash?

[Kingson]

I would like to get query hash, any helpful info for me, thanks.

[alexhoma]

Hi! Here you have the specification: /docs/setup.md#how-to-get-your-query-hash-old-query-id

Into the docs/ directory you will see some examples and specifications of the library.

[Kingson]

@alexhoma Thanks for your replay, I read the docs, but I want to generate query hash by myself.
Instagram how to generate "42323d64886122307be10013ad2dcc44"?

[Kingson]

@alexhoma query_hash does not change forever?

[idkm23]

what is the point of query_hash? I would expect it would be a way from instagram to confirm the query is coming from an informed sender. But if the hash is consistent, (i.e. doesn't have a parameter like time of day) then what is the point?

[hexadeciman]

I would expect it would be a way from instagram to confirm the query is coming from an informed sender.

It is not, it's just a way for them to cache the query params so that they can store and return the response faster.
Read more here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54238696/what-is-query-hash-in-instagram

You should be able to generate it, using i.e. hash.js package

[jonbesga]

Hi @hexadeciman. I don't think the answer in the Stack Overflow thread is correct as the query_hash is always the same for every request (f2405b236d85e8296cf30347c9f08c2a) but the query params are differents everytime. If they were caching the query params with this method the query_hash should be different for each request.

[hexadeciman]

I just checked and it is different for every query

It just seems to stay the same for pagination.

[jonbesga]

Hmm, weird.

For example, I'm loading @mileycyrus and @instagram.

First request for both accounts has the following query hashes (the same):

Miley: aec5501414615eca36a9acf075655b1e
Instagram: aec5501414615eca36a9acf075655b1e

In successive requests, for pagination, again the same:

Miley: query_hash: f2405b236d85e8296cf30347c9f08c2a
Instagram: query_hash: f2405b236d85e8296cf30347c9f08c2a

Also, they send all the data instead of first the query_hash. So this defeats the concept of the automated persisted queries

Edit: All of this is anonymously. I'm not logged in.

[oleksiivykhor]

Hello, @Kingson, query hash you can find in browser dev tools (https://github.com/mineur/instagram-parser/blob/master/docs/setup.md#how-to-get-your-query-hash-old-query-id) and then in neighbor tab JS you can find it in one of many loaded JS files, by Ctrl + F. Then before each request you can get content of this JS file from the link in html and parse generated query hash by regex.

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[benocd]

Does the query hash ever expire? or does it have a query limit?

[KaKi87]

Hello,
So there is no way to automatically get the query hash ?

[meshchaninov]

query_hash hardcoded in one of *.js files on instagram. If u want to get hash, u should parse js files.

[KaKi87]

Yes, I actually found out. Thanks !

[anuuzsoni]

Yes, I actually found out. Thanks !

how?? plzz help... I am stuck in a long time active project...plz help as soon as possble...thanku