I'm trying to create an app in which I would like to display user feeds from social media apps like Instagram. I want the data to be as live as possible so I tried to integrate Instagram Webhooks. I have created a server side application with Instagram's authentication and a callback url for webhooks through which I want to fetch data from Instagram and then store it in a database.
I have been going through the Official documentation. I was able to get User id, name, comments through Instagram API and I have also subscribed Instagram's webhooks in my meta developer's application. It didn't throw any error but when I like or comment on my post I couldn't get any object in the callback URL. I'm completely new to this so It would be great if someone could explain me how to do this?
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I was working on Facebook Graph api and created a website on react that sends and receives messages from my business page which is connected it to my business account. Now I want to to the same for the Instagram Direct Messages but I couldn't find any resources and the developers.facebook docs was really confusing. I don't know what to use, if you know any tutorial video or documentation it would be really helpful.
I have an application where I am using Facebook,Linkedin and Twitter Api's to post on the respective platforms.Now I am deciding to use Instagram to start posting using their Api but I have not found any good articles to implement their Api.
Moreover I have read somewhere that it is not possible to post media contents using Instagram Api's. Is it true or we can now use Instagram to share media contents ?
Currently, it's only possible to post comments via the Instagram Graph API. You cannot post media.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/reference/media
IG Media
Represents and Instagram photo, video, story, or album.
Creating
This operation is not supported. To create an IG Comment, use the POST /{ig-media-id}/comments endpoint instead.
However there is a new publishing beta program you must be invited into:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/reference/user/media
Creates a media container for a photo IG Media object. This endpoint is only available to partners in the Content Publishing API beta program.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/guides/content-publishing
My goal is to use the Facebook webhooks to get a notification whenever an IG user mentions my IG account. For that I have followed these steps:
I have created a Facebook page and connected it with an Instagram business account.
I have created a Facebook app (which is now live) and added the product "webhooks".
I have connected my app with my page.
I have created a webhook and subscribed to the mentions event.
I have tested the webhook, using the tools provided by Facebook and it works.
The problem I'm facing is that I can't get my app to work with real data. I have tried to mention my business IG account from my IG personal account, but nothing happens. My callback url is not getting called.
My app doesn't need users to login, so I'm not sure if I need to send my app for review. Do I need a special permission?
I had the same problem. For my case, when I installed the app via graph api explorer, the page token I was using didn't have the instagram_manage_insights permission. So I granted that permission, got a new token, re did the POST request to the {page-id}/subscribed_apps again with the new token and that fixed the problem. Just for the record, I used a system user token from the business manager.
Did you verified your Facebook app via app review? If not, you won't get production data via a webhook callback for the Instagram. I had the same issue and asked the Facebook support and got following response:
However, this is not the same for instagram or pages. This is just how the product teams have decided to implement it. For app review, you can show a mock process of the flow, using either the test webhook or your own process. The app review is less about technical implementation steps, but just a way to make sure that your app is going to use the permission in a way that follows our guidelines, so mocking the procedure should be fine. The reviewers understand that you do not receive webhooks in dev mode and should take this into consideration.
For more information check out following links:
Why is the Instagram Graph API webhook not working
https://developers.facebook.com/support/bugs/495933900986533/
I just figure it out of this problem.
There is a mistake in the official Instagram webhook guide:
With Graph API version 3.2, the /{page-id}/subscribed_apps edge now requires the subscribed_fields parameter, which currently does not support Instagram webhooks fields. To get around this, use your app's dashboard to subscribe.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/guides/webhooks/#install-app
However, the app's dashboard subscribe is another function. You need your page to subscribe to some field to receive webhooks
Just POST /{your-instagram-connected-page-id}/subscribed_apps?subscribed_fields=feed&access_token={your-instagram-connected-page-token}
Then you will receive webhooks in live mode.
I try to integrate Instagram into my web app.
I need receive webhook by each comment in my media.
I create a Client in Instagram/developers and POST subscription,
But only receive when posting a media.
When another way,
I try with Facebook Instagram API, and receive webhook from a commets,
but if the user which write the commets isn´t a business account, I´m can´t get a data from the user.
Any suggestion?
Existe another way to integrate API Instagram?
Thanks!
No. You have covered the possible scenario. Comment webhooks are only supported in the FB graph API. And to use that you need to connect with business account. They don't support comment webhooks for non-business account.
I want to build Instagram client for Ubuntu. I already figured out how to get data like user feed through access token through Instagram API. But I can't figure out how to get user news (e.g. someone liked your photo, mentioned you in comment etc.), I guess user need to be logged on to watch his news (via http://instagram.com/api/v1/news/inbox/).
So, the question: is there any way to get user feed through API, or through access token? I don't want to request user password in my application, all I got is access token.
This endpoint (v1/news/inbox/) is not supported by official Instagram API. By the way; you can't access the data.