How to grab #access_token on the url on instagram api

Question

I request a instagram api access token and it return and url with the token ,something like that http://localhost/pruebainst/pruebas.php#access_token=MY_TOKEN. My question is how I can get this token of the url to store it on a variable to use it?It is not on $_GET OR $_POST.

Answer 1

You cannot use php or other server-side code to get hash fragment in URL. You have to use javascript

var access_token = window.location.hash.split('access_token=')[1];