Problem with posting to Instagram.

Status: Closed · Asked by Vladimir on Feb 9, 2022 · 0 views

Vladimir — Question · Feb 9, 2022

There is some bug with posting to Instagram. Strings are double-escaped. New lines become "\\n" and underscore become "\_".

I have found a solution for new lines (used
instead of new lines), but what to do with underscore? It's a part of usernames, so I can't mention people with underscore in username. Worst thing is that my username includes underscore. How can I solve it? I tried to used html entity "_" , but it's also double-escaped and was posted as "&lowbar;"

Any ideas?

Pabblymember11 — Reply · Feb 10, 2022

Hey @Vladimir

I have found a solution for new lines (used
instead of new lines), but what to do with underscore?

We have made some changes at our end and now you can pass the underscore _ freely but you need to escape the \n from your content so you can use the "Text Formatter by Pabbly: Replace Text" to replace it with %0A.

Kindly try this at your end and let us know if that works for you.

Vladimir — Reply · Feb 10, 2022

Well, that's not what I needed. You broke
, and I had to replace it with %0A. Now I have back newlines, but my underscore "_" sign still does not work. I tried to use "%5F" code, but it's printed as is.

Why not just simply pass all data to Instagramm without those weird transformations?

Pabblymember11 — Reply · Feb 11, 2022

Hey @Vladimir

Could you please record a short video on our concern, so that we can forward that to our technical team and can understand where exactly you are facing such difficulty? So that we can assist you with your concern accordingly?

Vladimir — Reply · Feb 12, 2022

This is how it must be:

This is how it actually posted:

You can see extra "\" is added and it breaks the link to profile.
Yesterday it started to work properly, but today I see that backslash is added again.

Vladimir — Reply · Feb 12, 2022

Images were not added to the message. Let's try once more. this is how it should work.

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