How to cache request or images from Instagram API?

Question

PHP

I make a request by tags

$hashtags = array( "тег1", "тег2", "тег3",  "тег4");
for($i=0; $i<count($hashtags); $i++)
{
                        // make request
                        $ch = curl_init();
                        
                        if($hashtags[$i] == 'тег1'){
                            
                        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/{$hashtags[$i]}/media/recent?access_token=MyTOKEN&count=2"); 
                        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
                        $output = curl_exec($ch);   

                      
                        }elseif($hashtags[$i] == 'тег2'){
                           curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/{$hashtags[$i]}/media/recent?access_token=MyTOKEN&count=3"); 
                            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
                            $output = curl_exec($ch); 
                        }else{
                            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/{$hashtags[$i]}/media/recent?access_token=MyTOKEN&count=1"); 
                            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
                            $output = curl_exec($ch);
                        }
                        
                          // convert response
                        $jdata = json_decode($output);

//Вывод 

    for($j=0; $j<count($jdata->data); $j++){
        if(!empty($jobj->data[$j]->images->standard_resolution->url)){
            echo ' <img src="'. $jdata->data[$j]->images->standard_resolution->url .'"> '
        }
    }
}

There are 10 tags on the working code. It turns out I do 10 requests each time. Exhausted the limit. If I save the image url in my database and update it every 5 hours, will it reduce API requests?

Answer 1

An extremely strange question, if you cache the api responses, during the cache time you will not access the instagram. According to your version, you will request those 10 requests every 5 hours.