I created an iOS app that using Instagram API and have a critical issue posting likes to Instagram.
Using endpoint – POST /media/media-id/likes, with user-specific access token. I request scope – likes from users.
Instagram API works fine for all requests except saving likes. We can only save/post a couple hundred likes to Instagram, and then response is "We've taken extra measures to protect the Instagram API from abnormal activity. Since you have recently created your API application, please contact apidevelopers#instagram.com to receive whitelisting for a higher rate limit."
There is other developers with same issue with no support or any feedback waiting for months.
Please, let me know if there is limits and how it works, or how to become whitelisted
I don’t want to create many Instagram API clients and assign users among them. It seems like bad acting for me, if there is official API with strict limits I want to work with it.
Instagram has new API limits: 100 likes/hr 60 follows/unfollows/hr per access token. That is only if you authenticate serverside and sign your headers. Check out the new authentication: http://instagram.com/developer/authentication/
I'm using it for my new site that automates likes/follows/unfollows, haven't had any problems works great. Check it out: http://instapromobiz.com
Instagram takes increased measures to limit your API requests based on IP address. This is not common knowledge, it's just something I've come to know from working with the API extensively.
They've built an API that is FAR from perfect, but have been upgrading it to be "smart". Smart enough to know that a newer client, pinging the API many times just for one user, may very well be a script kiddie trying to bot the system. For this reason, they do not give you a rate limit error, they politely say "we have taken extra measures to protect our API from being spammed by bots".
The good news is, other users should still be able to access your liking mechanism. Just not you, from that IP.
Related
In the past, Instagram autoliker, autofollower, like exchanger bots worked with the Instagram API. Thankfully, to keep Instagram - bot safe, they deprecated their API functionallity, so developers can no longer use Commenting, Liking endpoints.
But nowdays, I'm again meet new and new spam comments under a picture in the feed.
I did some research about the new autolikers.
How did the developers, like SocialCaptain bypass the API deprecation?
Are they simulating the user browsing instagram.com?
Actually you can just monitor the requests being sent from instagram.com. Open the developer tools and navigate to the Network tab.
Now you can reverse engineer their API by looking the requests they send on particular actions. The only thing left is to supply the proper body, headers, cookies, etc and perform the requests on your own outside of instagram.com.
Hope it helps !
I have a use case that Instagram does not seem to acknowledge. I am hoping that someone else has an idea for what I can do.
The website that I am maintaining has been using the API endpoint:
https://www.instagram.com/anyUser/media/
And I am aware that Instagram has recently stopped supporting this endpoint. So I am looking for a replacement.
My use case is that I do not want to allow the users of my website to authenticate and browse their own photos. Instead I want to show only the latest 20 images that "I" (aka my employer) have posted, one at a time in a loop.
Instagram's API documentation seems to be entirely focused on the use case of allowing users to authenticate and share their photos.
Is there an API call that will return the last 20 images that I have posted?
From its specs, the Sandbox will work fine for me, I cannot find a way to register with Instagram that does not require me to build a user authentication work flow that will NEVER be used.
You would want to use self feed endpoint.
https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/users/#get_users_self
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN
I was using the following api to get the latest 3 posts from public accounts to show on the website:
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/{user-id}/media/recent/?client_id={client-id}&count=3
I had created an app to get the client-id.
However from today, this API has started throwing the following exception:
{
meta: {
error_type: "OAuthAccessTokenException",
code: 400,
error_message: "The access_token provided is invalid."
}
}
Could you please let me know as how to resolve this?
Based on the date, you probably have an older app that got hit by the API migration today, like mine. In short, Instagram decided to make developing for their platform WAY more annoying by requiring all API requests to be authenticated per user, even for data that users shares publicly. So you (like me) will likely be redesigning you app entirely.
To tell, log in to instagram.com/developer and click manage clients; then hit edit next to the set of keys your're trying to use. Up near the top, it will have a section called 'Client Status' -- if yours reads 'Sandbox Mode', fun times ahead! Hopefully you interact with less than 10 users and can stay in sandbox mode, otherwise you'll have to write an essay, film a video, and basically plead to get your permissions back (probably in a few months, when some Instagram intern finally digs his way down to you in the pile of applications). If it reads something eles, you've got another problem altogether and should thank your lucky stars.
In the meantime, I guess I'll get back to sending out dozens of emails to the maintainers of our many, many affiliated Instagram accounts to explain the issue and try to get permissions, so provided we get approved by then, all our social media displays aren't broken during a huge event Saturday. Another option might be to use the OAuth-less json response available here, but that might break terms of service.
I have a solution to this. If you are using the same code I am, which appears likely. I was pulling the last two images using this.
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/{user-id}/media/recent/?client_id={client-id}&count=3
What I did to get this working is the following.
Login to your Instragram account you are using as the application.
Go to the developer (API) area. https://www.instagram.com/developer/clients/manage/
Manage clients. Make sure your website URL is the same as your valid redirect URL.
Add new Sandbox User. Put in the account of the IG photos you want to reach.
Hit this URL: https://api.instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id=CLIENTID&redirect_uri=REDIRECT_URI&response_type=token where the client ID is the same one you used in your previous app above.
You should get back and access token URL. Copy your access token.
Login as your account that you want the IG photos of. The account you added as a sandbox user and go to developer and approve the Sandbox Invites.
Change your original URL above from https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/{user-id}/media/recent/?client_id={client-id}&count=3 to https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/media/recent/?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN with your access token.
This is the IG API Media endpoint documentation: https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/users/
After that, it all worked for me and while you are in the sandbox, you should be able to pull the last 3 photos or at this point, figure out how to read the JSON to do so.
Has your app been approved after the June 1st Instagram platform changes?
http://developers.instagram.com/post/145262544121/instagram-platform-update-effective-june-1-2016
If you want to retrieve the user media file then try this, It's working for me
https://graph.instagram.com/me/media?fields=id,caption,media_url,media_type&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN
For some reason the token is no more valid. Request it again.
Possible reasons why a token is no more valid:
changed password
verified the account
logged-in from a different country
Since 3 or 4 days ago i'm not able to like any photos from any token, I think they blocked me to like. I still can follow/unfollow users via my application. I also can like photos via instagram iOS app.
This is the error i have:
"meta": {
"error_type":"APINotAllowedError",
"code": 400,
"error_message":"you cannot like this media"}
Do you know if they will unlock me or it's permanently?
Instagram changed the terms for using POST and DELETE requests. You can read more about it here http://developers.instagram.com/post/116410697261/publishing-guidelines-and-signed-requests
If you want to request access to those endpoints you can do it here, if your app is qualified.
https://www.facebook.com/help/instagram/contact/185819881608116#=
See API Terms of Use:
Do not abuse the API. Too many requests too quickly will get your access turned off
Wait for some days and see if they will free you... If you are still having trouble, i would suggest to create a new client and see what happens.
I'm trying to set up various Instagram clients to use with website integration. I must say that I am extremely disappointed in the quality of the Instagram developer documentation, and their API has some seriously annoying aspects to it.
That being said, when I try to update one any of my clients (under any of three accounts), I get the following error (in a non-styled, blank page):
Sorry, an error occurred while processing this request.
What gives? I was able to update a few of my clients, but then started getting this error.
Also, why does Instagram make it nearly impossible to create more than five clients? I need more than this to cover all of the environments that the website(s) run in, so I've been forced to create multiple Instagram accounts for each site...
Apparently Instagram's API (or at least the part relating to adding/editing clients) was down. I guess I'll mark this as answered, but I really wish Instagram would offer better documentation/support...