I am using new Instagram Graph APIs for my application, I am interested in knowing if there is any way I can get profile information about the user who comments on my Instagram posts and what are possible ways to get the direct message exchanging with those users, as far I found that Instagram Graph APIs do not provide any direct messaging support for now, though I found some private APIs but these are not reliable as they can be restricted any time in future.
So all I need is to get those user`s information who commented on my Posts ie- I get only comment_id from the web-hook request from Instagram Graph APIs but when using that comment I try to get its owner/user it does not return any user information except username.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Thank you!
try this endpoint:
v3.0/{comment_id}?fields=id,timestamp,username,text
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I am building a website that shows their follower/audience insights to me.
I want to get follower-engagement, audience countries, age group etc for any user who authorized this data to my web-app
I am not finding anything for Instagram, I have found multiple resources for Facebook but not Instagram.
Any feedback on this will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
The Instagram API is not publicly available for the use case outlined in your question.
The available API is intended for Instagram Businesses and Creators who need insight into, and full control over, all of their social media interactions.
This is as far as you can go with it.
I am working on an app, which does the below:
A user logins using instagram User creates content and shares it with a subset of her instagram followers ( say 3 out of 200)
Those 3 users get a message in their insta inbox and can click on a link
and sign up on our app.
I am trying to find Insta API documentation, but I am unable to. Can someone experienced with Insta API's please guide to me to specific parts of the Instagram API documentation which can do What I am imagining?
Thanks
The thing that you are trying to create is not possible by using official Instagram APIs. None of the APIs returns the list of followers for given user. It is also not possible to send a Direct message via Instagram API.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api here is the introduction to Instagram Graph API. Right on the top of that page you will find possible use-case scenarios.
There is also more limited Basic Display API which documentation and possible use-cases you can find here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-basic-display-api
It is possible to get data from Instagram users, like number of posts, profile photo etc from a backend service? I don't want to force my user to login into his Instagram account to get those informations.
I'm reading about Instagram new api but always it talks about oauth which implied force login vis frontend.
Thanks.
Why would Instagram give some users data, without login? Only possible option is through Instagram public APIs, using OAuth/OIDC.
You should be able to use someone else's token (... yours?) to fetch informations about users and posts.
But that will always be limited.... for example users with non public profile, you won't be able to see those, or maybe you'll loose some posts, ....
I need to get an instagram user stories and add them to my app.
I've searched a lot and didn't find any way to do such.
I tried to search it on instagram api and facebook graph api but it seems that they provide only own user data after the user is logged in.
How can i achieve that ?
Unfortunately this is not possible with the official Instagram Graph API.
I am making my research for an upcoming project:
It is going to be a website you can login via your Instagram account - I need access to the user's name, profile picture and to the people he/she is following.
Is Instagram allowing a website/project to access this information?
Just in case this is a super easy question: I am not a developer and it is very hard for me to work through the Instagram developer website - I highly appreciate any help!!
Thank you very much!
Mathew
You will first need to implement the authentication part, and receive an access_token for the user. In fact you will receive user's id, username, and profile photo along with the access_token.
That was the hardest part. Then you may use the access_token to make some API calls to get information such as follows and followed-by.
You can access Name, profile photo and followers using Instagram APIs.
Here are the 2 APIs you will need:
http://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/users/#get_users
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/1574083/?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN
http://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/relationships/#get_users_follows
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/3/follows?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN