I am trying to access Instagram feeds for my user and hence I have created a Access Token as per documentation
https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/
I am able to access my feeds by passing access token over
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/media/recent/?access_token=
However, I would like to fetch other user's feed (read only). So I want to make user as configurable and when I change user, I get respective user's feeds.
Could you please let me know if I have to use different end points?
I have tried
"https://www.instagram.com/v1/users/{user}/media/recent/"
But it is not working and resulting in page not found.
Any help is appreciated.
Regards,
Suyash Bhalekar
If you don't plan to have more than 10 users you can use Sandbox mode. Access token is connected for given Instagram account, not to your entire app. So other users needs to "log in" to your app and approve access to their personal data. Once they do that you receive access token for their Instagram user and you can use /self/media/recent endpoint.
However if you plan to have more than 10 users you need to submit your app for review.
The docs say (step 4):
In the App Review for Instagram section, click Add to Submission for each permission your App will need from its Users. instagram_basic is required. instagram_manage_comments, instagram_manage_insights, and instagram_content_publish are optional.
Scroll to the bottom of the page, and in the Current Submission sub-section, for each submission, click its View Notes link.
In the View Notes dialogue for each permission submission, provide a description for how you will use the data returned by any endpoints that require the permission, and a screencast showing how your app will use the data.
Once you've completed your notes for all of your permission submissions, click the Submit For Review button at the bottom of the page. Note that this is separate from your App Review, which you will do after testing.
After you've added both Facebook Login and Instagram API products to your app configuration, add Facebook Login to your app and record a screencast showing how you will use data returned by the Instagram API. This is similar to the Facebook Login screencast but with Instagram data, so the same guidelines apply.
Step 5:
Once you've been notified that your Instagram API product submission has been approved, you can use the Graph API Explorer to test your app.
With Facebook Login I can create an app that works in sandbox mode. Which lets me create a screencast. To be able to use Instagram Graph API (on a site) I need (from what I can gather):
Facebook Page linked to Instagram Business Account
an app icon
a privacy policy page
a site with working Facebook Login
description of how each permission is going to be used
screencast of... what exactly? of a site that is basically ready, but instead of fetching data from Instagram, it has them hardcoded in the code?
Or there is a sandbox mode after all?
UPD I've highlighted the important parts in the quotes above. Then:
5. Test Your App
Once you've been notified that your Instagram API product submission has been approved, you can use the Graph API Explorer to test your app.
Go to the Graph API Explorer...
The first call you will make is to the Graph API's /user/accounts edge...
Locate the Page that you connected to the Instagram Business Account and click its ID...
Next, [make /page?fields=instagram_business_account request].
This is where I get empty response in Graph API Explorer (only id field is returned), or:
200:- OAuthException:(#200) Access to this data is temporarily disabled for non-active apps or apps that have not recently accessed this data due to changes we are making to the Facebook Platform. https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/205942813488872/
GET /...?fields=instagram_business_account HTTP/1.1
on my site. Which requests to Instagram Graph API can I make before passing reviews (Instagram App Review, and Facebook App Review)?
It looks like the documentation that Facebook provides is somewhat misleading. You can actually use Instagram Graph API via Graph API Explorer (or by sending GET requests from your code) in a very limited way accessing only your instagram business account BEFORE you get initial approval described in Step 4.
Steps:
Open Graph API Explorer.
First, you need to add extra permissions in the "Access Token" section. There is a "Add a Permission" drop down on the bottom of that section. Open that drop down and select: instagram_basic, manage_pages, business_management permissions. Depending on what you are trying to do, you may need other permissions as well (e.g. instagram_manage_comments, ads_management, manage_pages).
Once you selected the extra permissions, click on the "Get Access Token" button.
Now, you have access token with correct permissions and you should be able to execute instagram_business_account request. This will return the instagram id of your business account, which you can then use for other requests.
After going through these steps, I'm able to get media for my business account via Instagram Graph API, although I'm still trying to figure out why tags request returns empty list.
Go to your app dashboard from your developer account:
https://developers.facebook.com/apps/APP_ID/dashboad
Go to: Roles -> Test Users.
Edit one of the test users to change its password to what you want in order to know him.
Once done, logout from your personal account and connect with the "test user" account in https://facebook.com
Go to your app and click the facebook login with the scope "instagram_basic".
With the access_token that you get you are able to ask Graph API about the user's instagram business account.
Et voilà.
PS: You will not be able to use the Open Graph API tool from your test user. My advice is to test your app from Incognito mode so it will not interpose with your personal account.
UPDATE
Currently, access the instagram data from this way is disabled but this is the right way to access the data.
FB error message says:
(#200) Access to this data is temporarily disabled for non-active apps or apps that have not recently accessed this data due to changes we are making to the Facebook Platform. https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/205942813488872/
You can get full functionality of Graph API if you login with the developer account, use that to create a video screencast of app functionality and submit
You will have to create a test application out of your real application, these applications are in sand box mode by default (developer mode) https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/test-apps/ You will be able to access any fb permission / feature with it, and develop a product with it. Once you are ready to review, in your submission of your real application link your test app in the process
I am trying to retrieve reviews from the Facebook page, but unable to get reviews as it required the access token.
Is there any way to get reviews from the Facebook page using page id without page access token?
I have found many questions asked earlier for the same thing but that still won't help me.
I also got the answer to getting reviews using places, can anyone know how to do that?
Or is there any paid service for this?
Checked following links but unable to achieve the correct result that I want:
Facebook Access Token for Pages
Get facebook public page rating and review
Thanks
Is there any way to get reviews from the Facebook page using page id without page access token?
No, there is not.
If you do not have admin access to the page, then you can not access the reviews via API.
Or is there any paid service for this?
Any such service would be in violation of Facebook terms, if they acquired that data via scraping.
I am using log in with facebook in my web app. Because of this I will always have the userid of the current user at facebook. I want to use the profile picture in my app, I can do this easily by:
<img src="http://graph.facebook.com/<%- accountId %>/picture?width=200&height=200">
This seems fine if I just display the picture at the current users dashboard, but what if I want other users to see each others pictures? Is it a good idea to always link each users images as above? It will in this case be a bounch of requests to facebook for each view of my app. Or should I download each users profile pic when they register and display it from my database? Am I allowed to do that? In this case, how do I save the picture into my mongoDB database via waterline (sails.js)?
I am working on an iphone app which uses instagram API..and I would like to know the following things..Is it possible to get data from instagram without user logging?If so, what type of data would be retrieved from it?Is it possible to access data of a specified user?Or is it only possible using social networking sites like facebook,tumblr etc?
thanks
Yes, with a valid client id, you can fetch user information for a specific user id. Information available includes name, bio, website, and profile picture. You can also return multiple users' data using the search endpoint.
Take a look at the User Endpoints documented here: http://instagr.am/developer/endpoints/users/
I also suggest reading Do you need to authenticate? section here: http://instagr.am/developer/authentication/
NOTE: by providing a client id instead of a valid user token, you are counting against your own application's 5000 calls per-hour limit. If you plan on having a large user page, you would need to authenticate each user to avoid this limit.