I need to build a app with some specific details, and since I never worked with Instagram I have no idea if is possible or not, and also the information that I find on the docs doesn't say much, so hope someone had the same experience.
So basically I need to track some analytic information, for example in my App, for someone to register it needs to login in Instagram and than must follow my Instagram page, I believe this is possible, but then I need to track some information from the users and that is:
Check if the user is hashtaging my company page (to check which users made more shares or something);
Check which users had more engagement;
Can someone tell me if this is possible to track on Instagram API?
The new Instagram graph API is very limited, you cannot make to app and allow user to follow, you cannot access other user posts to check if they hashtagged or engaged.
All you can do is, access only your posts (if business account), and you can access your post's comments. You can also get last 24hrs of an hashtag, but no user info is given.
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i am building a website where you can get services for your Instagram account, i want to create a Search box that when you put your user name (e.g. "#John") it returns your profile picture and asks you if that is the correct profile (without logging in to your Instagram account),
I've found a website that made that possible already, does any one know how?!
the website - https://app.get-notch.com/acquisition/instagram-username
thank you in advance!
You should check out this resource that allows you to do that. See an implementation of it here and test it here.
So I'm planning to make an analytics app based using Instagrams API. But i have a quick question since I'm sort of confused on this. On Instagrams documentation i see the following:
follower_list - to read the list of followers and followed-by users (applications no longer accepted)
So let's say the user using my app has authenticated.
Does the above mean that I can't access their, the users, followers and followed lists?
Or does this mean that I can't access the list of "followers" and "followed" other then the authenticated user? (ie the lists of another user that the authenticated user may be following)
Hopefully this makes sense.
I saw the following question posted, but i just want to be sure.
Instagram API - How can I retrieve the list of people a user is following on Instagram
Thanks
As of Oct 1 2017, Instagram is no longer approving following_list permission, so you cannot access authenticated or any user's followers/following. No other solution using official APIs
I am trying to get list of users following me or followed by me on instagram. I have tried the api (https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/relationships/#get_users_followed_by) for getting the information but its returning and blank data array with 200 OK status code. Doesn't find out the solution.
Basically I want to gather to create a daily graph from data.
I have created the app for this where I am the admin and also the sandbox user. Other document said in sandbox mode I can access my data information with scope like follower_list but it still return blank data array.
Anyone can help me to solve this out?
Thanks
In Sandbox mode you will see blank data, you will only see your and your sandbox user's data.
If you add one of your followers to sandbox user (and they accept it), then you will just see that user in API response for followers
From Instagram page:
Starting 10/1/2017, all permissions other than the basic permission
will be unavailable to submit for or obtain.
Instagram only approve the basic scope. Check out the new Instagram Graph API.
Is it possible? I have read the documentation but I wish to know there is one way. I need to create a gallery with some hashtags and filter by some users. Maybe something in the backend can do it?
No. From the official api, you can't get other users' media anymore. They only allow developers or users to fetch their own "RECENT" media. So does hashtags.
More and more restrictions and fewer and fewer APIs opened by Instagram, it's hard to do valuable stuff around IG now.
It is possible. The developer client key defaults to your own content in sandbox mode. You have to create a submission for approval, you can do this via: https://www.instagram.com/developer/clients/ and choose the client that you have created, then the permissions tab will allow you to apply.
I am going through the application process at the moment for our App, it is very difficult as Instagram are stringent.
I downloaded a jQuery plugin a while back that worked really well in displaying posts from a particular hashtag from instagram. Since the recent updates to instagram, the hashtag search returns an error
“This client has not been approved to access this resource.”
I have been told that I need to get permission to now access a specific hashtag, but since this is not an app and I am not the developer, how do I go about doing that specifically?
You have to have access to Instagram account otherwise you cannot do anything.
By the way, you have that jQuery plugin? Maybe I can take a look at it and help you with that.
To get this level of information you will need a developer account with Instagram and then get the appropriate token for accessing this information through the API. The scope will need to set correctly during the oauth2 generation of the token, it will probably need the "public_content" scope.