Before Instagram's website turned into a progressive web application (circa August 2017), the bottomless scrolling worked like this:
- Automatically load next page of post thumbnails.
- “Load more” button at page bottom manually AJAX/XHR-requested loading the next page of posts.
- Fallback: “Load more” button at the bottom did lead to
?max_id=URL that displayed the entire profile page with the Instagram posts starting that last post ID and older.
- Fallback: “Load more” button at the bottom did lead to
Contrary to Instagram.com post URLs, that max_id is purely numerical. The file names of Instagram pictures also contains some numerical IDs. More information: https://ArchiveTeam.org/index.php/Instagram (happens to be written by a banned user!)
Some archived Instagram pages with that URL parameter: http://archive.is/search/?q="instagram"+"max_id" (first result: http://archive.is/Shial / long URL: http://archive.today/2017.07.07-181253/https://www.instagram.com/spurgulover/?max_id=827298680002387308 ).
Before Instagram's website turned into a progressive web application (circa August 2017), the bottomless scrolling worked like this:
* Automatically load next page of post thumbnails.
* *“Load more”* button at page bottom manually AJAX/XHR-requested loading the next page of posts.
* **Fallback:** *“Load more”* button at the bottom did lead to *`?max_id=`* URL that displayed the entire profile page with the Instagram posts starting that last post ID and older.
Contrary to Instagram.com post URLs, that *`max_id`* is purely numerical. The file names of Instagram pictures also contains some numerical IDs. More information: https://ArchiveTeam.org/index.php/Instagram (happens to be written by a [banned user!](/p/150834))
Some archived Instagram pages with that URL parameter: http://archive.is/search/?q="instagram"+"max_id" (first result: http://archive.is/Shial / long URL: http://archive.today/2017.07.07-181253/https://www.instagram.com/spurgulover/?max_id=827298680002387308 ).
(post is archived)