I added instagram feed to my website with following way. This works fine but my access token is expiring again and again which results in blank page. Token expiration leads me to generate token manually and so many times.
Can anyone help me out to rectify this problem?
$result = file_get_contents('https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/media/recent/?access_token=[my access token]&count=20');
$result = json_decode($result);
According to the documentation, this is expected:
Even though our access tokens do not specify an expiration time, your app should handle the case that either the user revokes access, or Instagram expires the token after some period of time. If the token is no longer valid, API responses will contain an “error_type=OAuthAccessTokenException”. In this case you will need to re-authenticate the user to obtain a new valid token. In other words: do not assume your access_token is valid forever.
https://www.instagram.com/developer/authentication/
Is your app in sandbox mode? Maybe in sandbox mode the token lasts less than normal. But still, you shouldn't assume a minimum duration like the above explains.
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Most of our clients are having no issues whatever with our system. We have an integrator key and our users do an initial link up for integration using OAuth on REST. We store the access/refresh tokens. Works fine. At some point down the road some clients seem to randomly hit this.
We are using OAuth with the REST API and always get a new access token using the client's refresh token if their access token is within 30 minutes of expiring.
Q: If a client's access token expires before they make a subsequent call (some of our clients might go 30 days before having another document to sign) to get a new one with the refresh token can that cause this?
Q: Can the refresh token expire such that they would get this?
Q: Short of the client manually revoking access to the integration on their DocuSign account, what else could cause this?
If you get this error then you need to restart the oauth flow again.
A refresh token does expire at some point. When it expires is a policy issue. To achieve the longest possible refresh token lifetime, request scope extended in addition to signature.
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Q: If a client's access token expires before they make a subsequent call (some of our clients might go 30 days before having another document to sign) to get a new one with the refresh token can that cause this?
A: I'm surprised that you're getting this specific error, but I haven't tried this for awhile. I'd think the error would have a different name.
Q: Can the refresh token expire such that they would get this?
A: Same answer as above re the specific error name. In any case, a refresh token can definitely expire. Requesting the extended scope should minimize this, but at some point an account may set a policy that will also expire extended scope refresh tokens. Bottom line: your app needs to be prepared to ask the user to go through the entire OAuth Auth Code Grant flow again.
Q: Short of the client manually revoking access to the integration on their DocuSign account, what else could cause this?
A: Using the wrong base url for the user. Also, at some point there will be organizational controls that can force policies upon the org's accounts. (Organizations own and control accounts.)
I made An app (which is Live now and) it Uses Instagram API.
It uses one access token per hour. (which is far away from limit 5000/hour)
But What I see that say if 25 users gave access to me than each day 2 to 4 user's access token become invalid (seems randomly).
But Instagram says that:
Even though our access tokens do not specify an expiration time, your
app should handle the case that either the user revokes access, or
Instagram expires the token after some period of time. If the token is
no longer valid, API responses will contain an
“error_type=OAuthAccessTokenException”. In this case you will need to
re-authenticate the user to obtain a new valid token. In other words:
do not assume your access_token is valid forever.
I confirmed that none of these "Revoked Access".
Is there any reason that why its happening.
Or any platform where I can contact Instagram and ask the reason.
So that I can avoid it. (if I 'm doing something wrong)
Unfortunately, the tokens have a tendency to (seemingly) randomly expire. I think the reason is that Instagram doesn't want a single token to grant full access to a user's content without expiration.
Instagram expires the token after some period of time
I would recommend having the user re-auth through Instagram to get a fresh token, as they suggest, and making sure that you are able to handle that OAuth exception when it happens.
In this case you will need to re-authenticate the user to obtain a new valid token.
do not assume your access_token is valid forever.
Also, since the permissions update on 2016-06-01, Instagram has been somewhat hostile and generally unhelpful toward 3rd party apps, so it's not really worth contacting them.
what are the reasons that the access_token instagram becomes invalid. I've noticed that there is no time expiration of the token?
Does someone know how to avoid it?
thanks a lot for your replies
Your all answers are given here in this document:
https://www.instagram.com/developer/authentication/
Important
Even though our access tokens do not specify an expiration
time, your app should handle the case that either the user revokes
access, or Instagram expires the token after some period of time. If
the token is no longer valid, API responses will contain an
“error_type=OAuthAccessTokenException”. In this case you will need to
re-authenticate the user to obtain a new valid token. In other words:
do not assume your access_token is valid forever.
So Token expire in two case
User revoke access
After some time (No specific time interval)
Does someone know how to avoid it?
No. Ther is no way to avoid it because that is for security reason. Avoiding it is compromising the security of the user and Instagram definitely don't want that.
So the only solution (And proper way) is to handle OAuthAccessTokenException
I'm currently using my own Instagram account (not that of my users) to get an access_token, and thus I don't need to create an explicit server-side authentication flow for myself to get the code. I can then use the code programmatically to get an access_token without any human interaction.
My question is, for the purposes of an app that only requires the owner's code to get an access_token, does Instagram let you reuse the same code so that you don't have to keep manually entering a new one?
Thanks :)
If you are only using a single account, there is currently no need to request new access tokens repeatedly. You should be authenticating one time, and storing that access token to use with calls to the API endpoints.
Instagram access tokens currently have no set expiration, however may expire at any time in the future. So you may reuse the token indefinitely (for now), but build the system to be prepared to request a new token in the event that the stored token expires.
Per http://instagram.com/developer/authentication/:
Note that we do not include an expiry time. Our access_tokens have no
explicit expiry, though your app should handle the case that either
the user revokes access or we expire the token after some period of
time. In this case, your response’s meta will contain an
“error_type=OAuthAccessTokenError”. In other words: do do not assume
your access_token is valid forever.
I have an app, that pulls data from my Instagram account.
I authorized this app once, and got access token. But I'm worried,
what if this token expires? Should I authorized the app each time the
token expires?
Can I receive another access token from the auth code?
If no, what can I do to have my app always pulling data from account
without my participation?
Thanks.
But I'm worried, what if this token expires?
AFAIK, Instagram accesstokens don't expire currently.
Note: From Instagram documents.
Note that we do not include an expiry time. Our access_tokens have no explicit expiry, though your app should handle the case that either the user revokes access or we expire the token after some period of time. In this case, your response’s meta will contain an “error_type=OAuthAccessTokenError”. In other words: do do not assume your access_token is valid forever.
Should I authorize the app each time the token expires?
At the moment, you do not need to do that, as token does not expire. As and when the token expires in future, a corresponding warning or error code and message will be sent to you, which you need to handle.
what can I do to have my app always pulling data from account without
my participation?
You can try following:
Use sharedpreference to store the accesstoken.
First time when you try to fetch data that needs accesstoken(Authenticated requests), first check in the sharedpreference whether the accesstoken is stored or not.
if yes then you don't need to login, just use that accesstoken. If you don't have the accesstoken in preference then do the login using instagram credentials, get the accesstoken and then share it in shared preference and use that for subsequent requests.
You can provide instagram logout option in which you just need to clear the accesstoken from sharedprefernce.
Hope this is helpful to you.
Update - This no longer works as mentioned in the comments
While not well documented, It's worth pointing out that retrieving a feed of posts does not require an accessToken.
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/{user-id}/media/recent/?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN
can also be called passing just your client_id
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/{user-id}/media/recent/?client_id=CLIENT_ID
This isn't made clear in their documentation though.
https://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/users/
The Instagram access token expires at arbitrary times.
Twice in the in the last 7 months from my experience.
I did not find any way to regenerate the token without my participation, the only valid solution IMHO is to avoid the official API and use something like:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/33783840/
For the last 3 week, I have created new token multiple time and its expire after 2 days, but I also notice that some token didn't expired which were created before 3 years. Also, Instagram docs say the token can expire any time in the near future.
There is a hack at this moment to show the user's last post just append URL with `/?__a=1''
after user name such as
https://www.instagram.com/vaseem.ishak/?__a=1
you will get user last post with image text, no of comment like etc.just dig little the return JSON