My company has different websites for different customers, each of them using instagram API to retrieve pictures from customer's instagram account.
I have tried to register different instagram clients but it has been rejected because 'We don't approve multiple submissions for the same company. Please consolidate all your integrations under a single client_id.'
How one would solve this problem ? An instagram client has its own website url, privacy policy url and redirect_url which obviously can't be shared between different websites.
It sounds like you are trying to get your client approved to "go live"... does it meet one of their only three acceptable use cases (since June 1st 2016)?
“My app allows people to login with Instagram and share their own
content”
“My product helps brands and advertisers understand, manage
their audience and media rights.”
“My product helps broadcasters and
publishers discover content, get digital rights to media, and share
media with proper attribution.”
If your use case doesn't fit their new agenda you will never get it approved to go live no matter how consolidated it is. Your only other option is to stay in Sandbox mode. First read about the limitations of Sandbox mode and if these are acceptable, then you don't have to worry about submission process at all. Just create multiple API clients and leave them in Sandbox mode forever. But if you're doing anything besides showing a few recent photos on your customer's sites, Sandbox mode probably won't cut it for you and you may be out of luck.
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For example, let’s say I wanted to create my own Instagram API (I’m aware Instagram has an API but let’s imagine they didn’t and I wanted to make my own for them). Could I make one to post, like photos, DM, etc? Or does Instagram themselves need to make an API to allow me to access these functionality and commands?
You can certainly make one but you could be in violation of the service's Terms of Service (ToS). If you violate the ToS, the service could shut down your access.
In the scenario where someone publishes an unofficial SDK, it can be taken down under DCMA. For example, such a private Instagram API was made and published on GitHub before Facebook filed a DCMA claim with GitHub to have it taken down:
Facebook DCMA Takedown Request:
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/01/2020-01-22-facebook.md
Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22209892
Here's an excerpt from the Takedown Request:
Instagram-API repository (and its forks) offers a tool expressly designed to circumvent the Company’s effective access controls and protection measures by avoiding, bypassing, removing, deactivating, or impairing the Company’s technological measures without the authority of the copyright owners or the Company. Mgp25’s Instagram-API is designed to emulate the official Instagram mobile app when communicating with Instagram’s servers, which allows users of mgp25’s Instagram-API to send and receive data (including receiving legitimate, copyrighted posts by Instagram’s users) through Instagram’s private API. Mgp25’s Instagram-API also permits other types of access to, and collection of, Instagram’s users’ copyrighted works in manners that exceed the scope of access and functionality that would be permitted by a user with a legitimate, authorized Instagram account.
I am trying to build a website to support users to find the best bank account more easily.
So, I am planning to upload the bank information and have affiliation with those banks.
At this moment, I am thinking of guiding users to go to making bank account page of the banks.
I want to receive commission from the banks whenever new users have joined them through my website and they have actually made transaction.
My question is, how can I know if the user has made up the bank account through my website and actually made transaction?
Are there any ways on it except that the bank provides me the information regularly?
I want to be able to track what the user does at the bank's website after being linked from my website.
Thank you.
I want to be able to track what the user does at the bank's website after being linked from my website.
I doubt that you'll find many (if any) banks that will allow you to track users on their website. And you can't do it without their consent.
You're putting the cart before the horse here. Before you start figuring out how to implement this, you need a partnership (affiliate program) with those banks. And from there, you'll need to play by their rules.
Are there any ways on it except that the bank provides me the information regularly?
How else would you propose collecting and delivering this information?
If you want to pursue this, the best and least intrusive way to go about it is to have your partner banks set up referral codes or affiliate links; when customers come to them through you, the customers provide the affiliate code or click on a URL that's unique to you (provided on your website), and then the bank will report on the usage and pay out whatever has been agreed upon.
I'm building a site which wants to display recent Instagram images in a carousel, grabbed from a specific geotagged location. I have everything ready to go, but I just can't figure out how to get the data.
I'm using node.js and I want to grab the image URLs server-side and give them to the client for them to make the requests to Instagram to fetch the images. If this hits rate limits or violates Instagram policy then I'll simply cache the images server-side instead. Either way, I have no idea how to get the data I need from Instagram.
The furthest I've got is manually getting an access token using this URL: https://www.instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id=123456&redirect_uri=http://localhost&response_type=token&scope=public_content
Then using that access token I tried the following request in Postman:
https://api.instagram.com/v1/locations/226170293/media/recent?access_token=123456
But it returns the following:
{"pagination": {}, "data": [], "meta": {"code": 200}}
After Googling around a bit, I figured maybe it's because my Instagram app is in sandbox mode. So I went about applying for full access. The request form presents these options:
Which use case best describes your Instagram integration?
I want to install a third party widget to show Instagram content on my website.
I want to display hashtag content and public content on my website.
I want to display my Instagram posts on my website.
I want to build analytics for my own Instagram account.
My app is still in development and/or is a test app.
My app allows non-business users to login and post comments, likes or follow actions.
My app allows people to login with Instagram and share their own content.
My product helps brands and advertisers understand, manage their audience and media rights.
My product helps broadcasters and publishers discover content, get digital rights to media, and share media with proper attribution.
Other
My requirement falls under the second option, but after selecting it, I'm told:
This use case is not supported. We do not approve the public_content permission for one-off projects such as displaying hashtag based content on your website. As alternative solution, you can show your own Instagram content, or find a company that offers this type of service (content discover, moderation, and display).
And actually, selecting any option apart from the 3 options above "Other" presents a message stating it's not allowed. Even selecting "Other" shows:
We do not accept submissions for integrations that do not fall into one of the approved use cases.
Talk about terrible UX.
I'm seriously considering just scraping the URLs instead, but I'm betting that's definitely against Instagram policy, but what other choice do I have? All I want to do is display some images on a website...
Think I have it thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/40527149/1864403.
https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/226170293/?__a=1
No idea how people can find this out other than word-of-mouth.
I am working at a agency that used to add Instagram hashtag & user feeds on websites. My old applications still work until june this year (https://www.instagram.com/developer/changelog/). Then they will need to be approved by Instagram to get out of sandbox mode.
I understand that we need an valid access token with: public_content permission scope. I read many people having their applications denied by Instagram.
When I read their permissions review (https://www.instagram.com/developer/review/) on the developer part of their site I came across this question:
My company is working with multiple clients, should I submit one app
per project? No, we do not approve apps that are created for one-off
projects (e.g. a hashtag campaign, an event, a website). You should
use a single client_id across all your integrations.
Do they approve applications that reuses its client_id for several projects? For example if I would want to develop an application/client which whole purpose would be to show one public instagram hashtag feed on websites. Would that get approved by Instagram if I reused the applications client_id over several projects?
Your use case is not approved. So your client will not get approved to "go live". You can still make these tag requests in Sandbox mode, but you will only get results from your last 20 posts. This short article explains how the Instagram API works since June 1st.
If you can work around the 20-post restriction, you can use this tool to manually generate an Instagram API token with the necessary public_content scope.
I don't think so.
I have requested public_info permission for an application simialr to yours but "DECLINED"
Try to request the permission with a good screencast video on how to use it and might be work. who knows.
Regards.
I would like some assistance, ideally from someone at Instagram to clarify a part of the API terms of use.
There are various apps and third party websites which use the Instagram API and also generate revenue, either through means of advertising or directly charging users a fee for features/access. Even something simple like a website which uses your pictures through the API to make prints generates strong revnue.
How are they getting around the following API terms? If I were to develop a third party website that generated revenue, would it get banned? I am not looking to charge users to access the website, but the website in general will generate a revenue and does use Instagram API for authenticating users and pulling pictures.
"You shall not: Sell, lease, or sublicense the Instagram APIs or access thereto or derive revenues from the use or provision of the Instagram APIs, whether for direct commercial or monetary gain or otherwise, except as set forth below."
Appreciate any help
Thanks