Problem with posting to Instagram.

[Vladimir]

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 <br> 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 "&lowbar;" , but it's also double-escaped and was posted as "&amp;lowbar;"

Any ideas?

 

[Pabblymember11]

Hey @Vladimir

I have found a solution for new lines (used <br> 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]

Well, that's not what I needed. You broke <br>, 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]

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]

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]

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

 

[Vladimir]

And this is how it actually happens. Extra "\" is added.

 

[Pabblymember11]

Hey @Vladimir

Thanks for the details, we are currently looking into your concern. Please allow us some time.

 

[Pabblymember11]

Hey @Vladimir

For your concern, we have added a new action event where we have tried eliminating the additional characters to post on Instagram.

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