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Recently, on the 21st of May Instagram released an update regrading IGTV, Videos, and Reels.

I used to get my user's media with the help of the Graph API, BUT after the update, new videos which are created are considered a Reel. Note - users have to be creators \ business accounts.

To quote Facebook "Reels are not supported" I know...

The main issue is that when I query the endpoints

POST /{ig-user-id}/media

or

GET /{ig-user-id}/business_discovery

of a certain user, no new videos returned from the API.

My question is:

Has anybody encountered the same problem and maybe has some workarounds? Or we should just wait for an API update, which i saw we have v14 now , but without any new features regarding videos and reels

Thanks!

Eyal Delarea
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  • The documentation says that reels should just automatically appear in the endpoints we're already using but I'm not seeing any objects returned with media_type=REELS – Sean H Jan 31 '23 at 16:15
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    Update: they fixed it reels are returning with media type = video and media_product_type is REEL. – Eyal Delarea Feb 02 '23 at 08:58

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