I have the problem in Instagram Permissions that I sent 2 submissions, which got denied... LOL My app needs public_content Scope but Instagram approved only my basic request. I am wondering whether you may help me to use my app to solve this issue.
Regards: amir
Try using this call of api to get the access code
https://api.instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id=[]&redirect_uri=[]&response_type=code&scope=public_content
Try reading the oficial Instagram developer guide. This links can help you.
link | https://www.instagram.com/developer/review/
link | https://www.instagram.com/developer/authorization/
In this website you can read about permissions on three main criteria.
Criteria for Review
1. Utility
The requested permissions must provide a non-automated, authentic, high-quality experience to your user and the larger Instagram community.
2. Visibility
Data gained from the permission needs to be tied to a direct use and visibly used within your app. We do not accept permission requests for data that you may decide to use later.
3. Validity
The requested permission needs to be tied to a valid use case.
Regards
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I want to 1) be able to receive updates about the activity in the comments on my instagram page and then 2) to be able to leave a reply.
I far as I understand the products, 1) can be made using Webhooks and 2) requires Instagram Graph API.
My app is intended to be used only by me. However, when I try to go through verification process, the form requires me to show how users can log into the app and so on. This does not apply to me.
The app is really simple: the comment is posted -> Webhook sends an update -> a reply is generated (this is out of the scope of this question) -> a reply is posted using Instagram Graph API from my page. You can see that the app does not have or require any additional UI.
The owner/developer of this chatbot is business, however it does not provide any servicies to other businesses. When applying for verification, I am only requesting 'instagram_manage_comments', however even there they ask me about the user log in (see the attached screenshot).
The account went through business verification already.
I was not able to find the information that is 100% relevant to my case.
The question is: what is the correct way to ask for the verification? Does Instagram support apps without additional UI and logging in? And basically what am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!
I have written an app which notifies users when someone make them unfollow (As like as any other apps in this area). Then, I got my app approved by Instagram. After six/seven attempts, they don't approve the app till now. I followed their instructions as feedback and fixed any probable privacy problem which my app might have. But I didn't get any bright answer from them as far.
I throw my app on the following use case:
My product helps brands and advertisers understand, manage their
audience and media rights.
And I wrote my API use cases as follows:
Thank you for considering our request to approve our application. The
required information for enabling live mode for our application is
explained in the following lines:
Q1: How your app does use the Instagram API?
First of all, our user (i.e. brands or advertisers) selects the “Unfollow Finder Service” on our application.
We redirect the user to Instagram login page, as indicated in API documentation, to authorize his account to accessing required scopes.
i. Note that we already told the user everything that we are going to
use.
We tend to call follow APIs whenever the authorized user clicks a button in our application.
Ultimately, we inform the authorized user with the information obtained from step 3.
Q2: How does it fall into one of the approved use cases?
The list of users who recently unfollowed/followed an
Instagram account are definitely crucial and beneficial for the brands
and advertisers on Instagram. In this way, they can get feedback
implicitly from their customers. Our service help them to manage their
audiences and provide better content for them. So, according to Q1,
our use case falls into “My product helps brands and advertisers
understand, manage their audience and media rights.” We never violate
the approved scopes and Instagram's privacy.
Q3: Who will be using your app?
In our region, lots of brands and businesses utilize
Instagram to publish their content. They are the users of our service
and can use it to improve their relation with their audiences. Kind
regards,
As you see, I'm trying to tell them everything in detail. But in my last submission, they declined me with the following feedback:
General issues:
Policy Violation ("Like", "Follow", "Comment" Exchange Program): Your
app shouldn't participate, enable or promote any “like”, “share”,
“comment” or “follower” exchange programs. In working to build a high
quality platform experience, we ask that you comply with our Platform
Policy (http://wwww.instagram.com/about/legal/terms/api/).
I just want permission on follower_list scope from them. The surprising part is that they noted me with almost irrelevant feedback. It seems that they do not want to approve my app at all.
Do I violate their privacy?
Does anyone face this problem? How can I fix it and had my app approved?
Sorry for asking this question here since I almost googled entire web (+Stackoverflow) and find no helpful answer. All of my previous attempts were gone away.
Thanks in advance.
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
We have an app and have built in IG integration but keep getting denied on our submission. We want to allow our users who have IG accounts to sign in on our app and then link their IG account. We show the IG icon and their IG name with a follow button so a user can gain followers on IG through our app. We need the follower list permission so that we can know if they are already following them or not and the relationship permission so that we can follow from our app. We have detailed the use case demo'd on a video but this is the only reply we continue to get. Any assistance would be great.
follower_list:
This permission (follower_list) does not support the use case you described in your submission notes, screencast and website. Please review Login Permissions (http://instagram.com/developer/authorization/) for a comprehensive list of permissions and valid use cases.
relationships:
This permission (relationships) does not support the use case you described in your submission notes, screencast and website. Please review Login Permissions (http://instagram.com/developer/authorization/) for a comprehensive list of permissions and valid use cases.
I'm running into the same issue with them declining my application for a valid use case.
I think it's because there wasn't enough information for them to validate the app, or the website isn't following their Platform Policy. I would read through it and make sure you're doing everything they want you to do. I would triple check what use case you picked and how you justified that your app falls into it.
It's also good to cover these, taken from Instagram.com:
Your submission should explain what does your app or company do, which
of the approved use cases your integration falls into, who will be
using your app, how do your user authenticate with your app, how you
use the API to power your integration, how does your product use the
data acquired from Instagram, etc.
I would like to access the insights of a Facebook page via the API. It is very well possible to obtain the insights of a Facebook app via the graph API, but I cannot find something similar for Facebook pages. Am I missing something?
Specifically, I am looking for stats such as total users, active users, posts, etc, preferrably over time as well.
Insights table docs say it is possible to retrieve metrics for all pages that are owned by currently logged in user after requesting read_insights extended permission. I think after that graph insights should work (/<page_id>/insights?access_token=...). If not then you probably need to use FQL (they have example in docs for getting page metrics).
The trailing slash is breaking this query. If you remove it you will see insights if permissions are correct, or "Only administrators of applications, pages, and domains can retrieve Insights" if not.