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copied!<p>I'm trying to use the Instagram API and I'm making AJAX requests in a do-while loop until the next_url is null. All I want this code to do is to fetch all the followers by making continuous requests until it's done. What is wrong in this code?</p> <p>When I remove the do-while loop it doesn't gives me an error, but as soon as a I use the AJAX request within a loop, it never stops. Clearly the <code>$next_url</code> string is not changing to the newly fetched <code>next_url</code> - why? What is wrong?</p> <pre><code>$(document).ready(function(e) { $('#fetch_followers').click(function(e) { var $next_url = 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/{user-id}/followed-by?access_token={access-token}&count=100'; var $access_token = '{access-token}'; var $is_busy = false; var $count = 0; do { while($is_busy) {} $.ajax({ method: "GET", url: $next_url, dataType: "jsonp", jsonp : "callback", jsonpCallback: "jsonpcallback", success: function(data) { $is_busy = true; $.each(data.data, function(i, item) { $("#log").val($("#log").val() + item.id + '\n'); }); $("#log").val($("#log").val() + data.pagination.next_url + '\n'); $next_url = data.pagination.next_url; }, error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) { $is_busy = true; //alert("Check you internet Connection"); $("#log").val($("#log").val() + 'Error\n'); }, complete: function() { ++$count; $is_busy = false; } }); } while($next_url !== '' || $count <= 50); }); }); </code></pre> <p>After I failed in my logic, I added the <code>$count</code> variable that can break the do-while loop, because the do-while loop was running infinitely. After adding it, it still runs infinitely, and I have no idea why.</p>

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