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Is it possible to use Instagram API and to create a web app which shows some images by their hashtags without that a person must authenticate herself? I'm using ASP.NET to develop the website

Paolo William Siviero
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  • Possible duplicate - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18709818/get-tagged-photo-without-access-token – Mutant Jan 27 '15 at 15:25
  • Short answer is you don't need authenticate unless you are doing something on behalf of the user. – Mutant Jan 27 '15 at 15:25
  • I tried on the console app of instagram api trying to execute the get method to receive the recent media with a specific tag without authentications and it said to me that that method requires an authentication. Somebody says that it requires only the client id but if so how can I do that? – Paolo William Siviero Jan 27 '15 at 15:45
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    You will need to register an application and get a client ID. – Mutant Jan 27 '15 at 15:56

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Not sure about tags, but you can download any Instagram user photo feed in JSON format using ?__a=1 next to landing page address like this. No need to get user id or register an app, no tokens, no oAuth.

UPDATE 12 APR 2018: Facebook applied some sign/token protection on endpoints like this one and now you need to provide X-Instagram-GIS header and csrftoken cookie. Header calculated with rhx_gis, csrf_token, user-agent and variables from your request. But still, this is possible to get Instagram feed data without auth.

UPDATE JAN 2019: Check my latest update here about how to use Google as CORS proxy.

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yes, you need to create a client_id for your app here:

https://instagram.com/developer/clients/manage/

and then call this url:

https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/{hastag}/media/recent?callback=&client_id={client_id}&count={number of photos to return}

Javier Gutierrez Martin
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