Instagram Hashtag Limitations - 30 hashtags per week
Due to a limitation imposed by Meta/Facebook - each Instagram Business account can query up to 30 different hashtag sources within a 7 day period. If your account hits the limitation you may see the error:
You have reached the Instagram hashtag limit imposed by Instagram of 30 hashtags per week. Please use another account. Sometimes this can be caused by using your account with another aggregator.
This effectively means that a single Instagram Business account can access 30 hashtags ongoing. If you need to add more than 30 Instagram Hashtags sources then your Curator account will have to have more than one Instagram Business account connected.
Below is a breakdown of Instagram Hashtag Source's limitation:
- When added as a source, it initially pulls up to 20-25 posts, and will continue to pull new posts within this limit each time it refreshes.
- When a hashtag source is added, a 7-day 'timer' starts for that hashtag.
- If the source is left to update then that hashtag slot will be used indefinitely.
- If the source is removed then that hashtag slot will become available after the 7 day timer.
- If the source is removed then re-added it will use the existing hashtag slot.
- If the account uses up all the hashtag slots you'll see the error You have reached the Instagram hashtag limit imposed by Instagram of 30 hashtags per week. Please use another account. Sometimes this can be caused by using your account with another aggregator.
- This limit is specific to each Instagram Business Account, you can increase the limit by connecting an additional Instagram business accounts.
- Instagram Carousel-Type Posts - Unfortunately, videos in Instagram Carousel Posts aren't currently supported. If a carousel post contains a video, the video is automatically ignored and hidden when pulled into your Feed. As an alternative, you can try embedding the carousel post into your Feed. Reference.
- Source cannot pull a post if it contains copyrighted material or has been flagged for a copyright violation.
Reference: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/guides/hashtag-search/