Fixing instabot projects' get_media_comments/commenters functionality

We're running a travel blog and Instagram page about it with my wife. A couple of days ago, we have organized a contest for a small thing we buy in one of our travels.

We have got a lot of participants. When the day of draw came, my wife asked me to get the follower/participant list automatically since there were a lot of them.

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I am already using instabot to get some automated stuff like following back, liking the timeline etc, for our Instagram account.

After doing some digging with instapy, I saw that I had everything I need.

• I could get media likes
• I could get media comments
• I could get my follower list

In order to be an eligible participant, you should be able to inside these 3 sets of data.

But there was a problem. instabot's getMediaComments just sending one initial request to get the media. If you have a media with 20+ comments, you can see only 20.

the fix

I have made a quick fix with a recursive approach until fetching all comments. And ran my contest code - which ran perfectly fine.

Changeset for the bugfix touches 2 projects in the instagrambot organization.

Pull Request 1: https://github.com/instagrambot/instabot/pull/400

Pull Request 2: https://github.com/instagrambot/api/pull/5

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