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Hashtags are Instagram's own taxonomy. Mined properly, a seed word expands into its whole semantic neighborhood — every competitor tag, sized by volume, with the posts to back it. Three endpoints do it.

Locations are Instagram's underrated dimension: every geotagged post carries a place id, and every place id is a filter the platform curated itself. For local research — venues, neighborhoods, events — location mining beats keyword search on precision.