Instagram access token with invalid error - instagram

Question

How can I display Instagram images of my account to my website homepage using access token and user id?
I followed this guide and get Instagram access token and user id https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-basic-display-api/getting-started
With this guide I get my long-lived access token
but when I run below code in PHP
$access_token="--elided--";
$photo_count=6;
$json_link="https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/media/recent/?";
$json_link.="access_token={$access_token}&count={$photo_count}";
echo json_link;
It shows:
{"meta": {"code": 400, "error_type": "OAuthAccessTokenException", "error_message": "The access_token provided is invalid."}}
How can I show Instagram media on my website?

Answer 1

That guide didn't work for me either. Eventually, I figured this out following the procedure described here.
A few key points to keep in mind:
Tokens are being generated from Facebook for Developers
, with no need for a post request like before.
To fetch the photos, you need to make more than one call to the API: One for fetching the photos' IDs and then, one separate call for each ID to get the actual data (permalink, image URL, caption, etc).
There is a limit to the calls that you can make per hour, which, as I realized, can be easily reached on a site with moderate traffic. So, you need to somehow cache the results (on WordPress, I used a transient for that, which seems to work fine).
The token expires after 60 days and you need to refresh it on time for your app to keep working.

Answer 2

Im kind of late but perhabs try to use different API URL. I was also stuck on this problem, trying to use
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/media/recent/?...
But later found this address
https://graph.instagram.com/me/media?fields=media_url,media_type&access_token=...
It works for me with this URL. Other stuff to put into fields=
I would reccomend testing with either curl in cmd or downloading Postman
Also if you followed that guide, you'll end up with short-lived token. There is a way to exchange it for long-lived token in this tutorial
But all you really need to do is get the URL ready
https://graph.instagram.com/access_token?grant_type=ig_exchange_token&
client_secret={client_secret}&
access_token={token}
where
client_secret is your instagram secret (developers.facebook.com => my apps => => on the left panel click "Instagram basic display")
token is that short-lived token you get from the tutorial mentioned in question (this one)