I want to build Instagram client for Ubuntu. I already figured out how to get data like user feed through access token through Instagram API. But I can't figure out how to get user news (e.g. someone liked your photo, mentioned you in comment etc.), I guess user need to be logged on to watch his news (via http://instagram.com/api/v1/news/inbox/).
So, the question: is there any way to get user feed through API, or through access token? I don't want to request user password in my application, all I got is access token.
This endpoint (v1/news/inbox/) is not supported by official Instagram API. By the way; you can't access the data.
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I'm trying to get user's instagram followers by this endpoint:
https://www.instagram.com/spongebob/?__a=1
I tried to get data with instagram access token, but it isn't working. How can I retrieve this data in my app? what token do i need?
Also, is there any possibility to fetch user's following list? I've read this, but I wasn't able to find any official documentation that it is impossible.
probably instagram changed the end point https://www.instagram.com/spongebob/?__a=1&__d=1
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 have user id's of very few instagram public accounts . All I need to do is to get the follower count information of those accounts . In the developer page they are talking about building an app and authorizing it with the users and getting some tokens and then getting the permitted information from that account . How can I get the follower count of those accounts ? Is it possible to get it without authorization from that account? What if I want to get more information like the media and likes etc?( I couldn't find many pointers in this direction)
In my practice I have not seen any api, that will provide you user personal info without token, instagram too. So you must to create login via instagram, where you will ask about some permissions from user, then if user will provide them you will be able to make requests with token and simply get media information, likes and followers. The only question is to ask user about this all permissions. It's no so hard, you need to do something like this
1.Get user token https://www.instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id=377e67cfbfe840e19a903aa5ea8dbe10&redirect_uri=http://127.0.0.1/&response_type=token&scope=likes+comments+relationships+public_content+follower_list
2. then do requests, for example '/users/self/media/liked', to request this you need to provide access_token which you received in first step and signature.
Like a little example, you can try to look at this code https://github.com/zhorzhz/instagram_api.git. There you will find steps which I said and also some more request examples.
Hope it will help you
I want to retrieve a list of recent photos with a given tag to display on a website in a very simple gallery.
For that, the doc says I need an access token. However, it seems that the only way to authenticate against Instagram is through OAuth; which involves sending the user to instagram and allowing my application access to their basic data. However, I don't want my users to do anything; I'd like my application to authenticate against Instagram for me and then retrieve the data I want.
Sounds simple, but all online documentation seems to end up in "Redirect your user to...". And I find no sensible ways to do this programatically; it's all about sending users away, letting them authenticate, and then receiving the access token afterwards. I could of course scrape the HTML, parse the forms (for example, the unique-per-session csrfmiddlewaretoken field which needs to be posted along with login requests etc) and let my server side application pretend to be my own user and login/authorize the app, but that doesn't seem like the way to go.
I could also just authenticate manually in the browser, pick up the auth token and paste into my application; but as the doc says: "do not assume your access_token is valid forever." - so I'd like this to be fully automated.
If I try to create a WebClient and POST to https://www.instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id={clientId}&redirect_uri={redirectUri}&response_type=code&scope=basic it just returns a 403 Forbidden which is of no use. (For what it's worth, I'm using C# and have found instasharp, but this problem is not tied to any given platform...)
Am I completely overlooking something, or am I right that server side authentication against Instagram has become really complicated? Most other social media platform API's I've touched lets me get some form of authentication token just by posting a combination of the application id and secret.
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