I am wondering if this is simply feasible or FB/Insta does not allow this use case...
I have a community that is ready to share content by posting it on Instagram and tagging media/post/referencing my business account.
Is it possible in my backend while using the Instagram Graph API:
to get notified about any post mentioning my business account
to retrieve consequently posted content to grant points subsequently on my platform?
I am speaking about a competition where users get points by sharing useful content traced back by my platform
Any informed feedback welcome!
So I know that you can access your own photos with Instagram API, but why not the public content?
When I try to get permissions for non-sandbox mode, the it tells me,
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).
So, I'm guessing that's not possible, but I am able to screen scrape all the public photos...
Is this the only way?
yes unfortunately this is the case and yes its extremely frustrating. Beyond a couple of apps the limitations of sandbox make it impossible to develop alot of apps.
My suggestion to you is to use a third parties access token from an access token generator with the scopes you need or go through the labour of getting your app approved
I'm developing of a community website that features about 500 user profiles. We now want to add the option to show the users' Instagram feed on their profile (with their consent). Going through the instagram API documentation some questions arose concerning the right approach about permissions and the review process.
Can anyone clarify if the following is a working approach and a valid use case regarding instagram's policy: Creating one client ID / access token for the website that is used to communicate serverside with the Instagram API, using the public_content permission to query the members' timeline. Server side caching would ensure that the rate limits are respected.
Since we need read-only access to public content only we would like to avoid managing authorization of every single member.
Thanks!
In the recent API changes Instagram removed the ability to use the client_id for requests and now an access_toek obtained by authorising and Instagram account is required for everything
You could make an account for your website, authorize it and use its access_token, but it will need to apply for the public_content permission and I don't thin Instagram will like this use case. Also with 500 accounts you may hit your Ali request limit.
The better option is to require uses to authorise their Instagram account if they want their recent posts on their profile and use their token to get their recent posts. This way you don't need the public_content permission
I want to access the full LinkedIn profile information using the API, but I have only managed to access the basic profile and e-mail address with the API-key and Secret Key.
Am I missing something or is it more restricted in some manner?
How did you get the LinkedIn API ?
Did you applied for partnership because as far as I know LinkedIn changed the policy of API , so the API will be available only through the partnership and for that you've to pay different fee based on partner program
Have a look here, the same thins we've too.
I've fulfilled the application 3 weeks ago but no response yet.
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I had spoken with one of our experts on this and he had confirmed for me that you can still go through other workarounds for this.
Go to https://developer.linkedin.com/partner-programs
Click on either of the options based on your need. You will be directed to another page where if you scroll down you will find the button for Apply to become a LinkedIn Solutions Partner. Click on that.
You will be directed to a page that says Apply to become a LinkedIn Partner and you can fill up the form from there for access.
I am new to this Instagram API, and I read their doc about endpoints, this is the endpoint that I am using:
/v1/tags/{tag-name}/media/recent?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN
It is fetching the images, but, only on my accounts photos. I want is, I will give an tag-name, and it wll display all, not just the photos on my account, but all the photos in Instagram too.
I know has been a long time, but just for the record.
Since you need the public_scope permission for this (the permission that gives you access to all public data on instagram, and not only your account) you need your app to be reviewed and approved by Instagram. However, if you're using the API for a one-site personal project, Instagram will not approve it.
Here's from Instagram's docs:
1: Which use case best describes your Instagram integration?
R: I want to display hashtag content and public content on my website.
A: 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).
You can find more information in the Permission Review documentation.
Your client is in Sandbox Mode and can only search for tags of photos posted by invited users. You have to login into https://www.instagram.com/developer, edit your client and click on the "GO LIVE" button.
If the "GO LIVE" button is disabled, you have get your app reviewed by Instagram first: Click on the Permissions tab and submit for review. (Company Name, Contact Email and Privacy Policy URL are required to start a submission.) Once approved, u will be able to click Go Live.
By hashtag you mean tags.
It works for me. Despite I'm using python client, it should work well when you're developing your own client. Look:
from instagram.client import InstagramAPI
api =InstagramAPI(client_secret=settings.CLIENT_SECRET,
access_token=settings.ACCESS_TOKEN)
result = api.tag_recent_media(tag_name='castle')
media = result[0]
for m in media:
print (m.images)
print (m.user)
print (m.tags)
You can try it and it is working for me.
/v1/tags/{tag-name}/media/recent?client_id={YOUR_CLIENT_ID}
My client id is created before "permission review", it is working now and I am trying to submit permission review to Instagram now, hope it will pass.