Instagram Media/Feed API

Question

I am currently looking at Instagram feed integration in a web app. The offical APIs are: Instagram Graph API and Instagram Platform API.

And then I found one endpoint like https://www.instagram.com/instagram/media/ on SO, here and here, which seems an undocumented (at least I haven't seen it on facebook/instagram document). It's publicly accessible and you can get a lot of information about the posts including likes and comments.

So my questions are:

Is the https://www.instagram.com/{username}/media/ documented some where?
Is it widely used on the internet?

In 2020 you can just use: https://www.instafeed.io – Mr. Hugo Oct 10 '20 at 23:32 — Mr. Hugo, Oct 10 '20 at 23:32

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 27 '17 at 02:44

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Its not official API, it may stop working anytime, not a good idea to use in a App. Other Instagram undocumented APIs have stopped working in the past, its good to use for one-off projects but I would not use it in a app/website.

answered Sep 27 '17 at 02:44

krisrak

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You're right, that we shouldn't use an undocumented api. I thought people must have seen this and probably can provide some more details :) – terry Oct 02 '17 at 02:20
you can use it, I use it sometimes too, but I dont rely on it or write apps with it. – krisrak Oct 02 '17 at 20:51
may I ask what do you use it for? – terry Oct 03 '17 at 00:18
to get image links in bulk – krisrak Oct 04 '17 at 12:26
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59526137/my-app-was-rejected-by-instagram-basic-display-api-review-due-to-invalid-reasons – Amrut Bidri Dec 30 '19 at 06:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 13 '17 at 13:23

This endpoint has stopped working on November 7 2017. But you can use this other endpoint to get the same results:

GET /users/user-id/media/recent
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/{user-id}/media/recent/?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN

Get the most recent media published by a user.
The public_content scope is required if the user is not the owner of the access_token.

REQUIREMENTS
Scope: public_content

PARAMETERS
ACCESS_TOKEN    A valid access token.
MAX_ID  Return media earlier than this max_id.
MIN_ID  Return media later than this min_id.
COUNT   Count of media to return.

https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/users/#get_users_media_recent

This is now not working as stated here: https://www.instagram.com/developer/ — Masiorama, Jul 06 '20 at 07:20

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 22 '20 at 06:10

I wrote small library on typescript. It doesn't require access token or client id.The library uses RegExp under the hood. You can get your photos like this:

import Nanogram from 'nanogram.js';

const instagramParser = new Nanogram();

instagramParser.getMediaByUsername('instagram').then((media) => {
  console.log(media);
 });

Instagram Media/Feed API

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