Instagram Basic Display API

The Instagram Basic Display API allows users of your app to get basic profile information, photos, and videos in their Instagram accounts.

The API can be used to access any type of Instagram account but only provides read-access to basic data. If you are building an app that will allow Instagram Businesses or Creators to publish media, moderate comments, identify @mentioned and hashtagged media, or get data about other Instagram users, use the Instagram Graph API instead.

Common Uses

• Getting an Instagram User Access Token and permissions from an Instagram user
• Getting an Instagram user’s profile
• Getting an Instagram user’s images, videos, and albums

Limitations

• Stories are not supported.
• Comments are not supported.
• Insights are not supported.
• Promoted posts containing Instagram media are not supported.
• Authorization codes are short-lived codes and are only valid for 1 hour.
• Instagram User Access Tokens are short-lived access tokens and only valid for 1 hour.
• The Graph API Access Token Debugger does not support Instagram User Access Tokens.

Documentation Contents

Overview Explanations of core concepts and usage requirements.	Getting Started A short tutorial to get you up and running.
Guides Use case based guides to help you perform specific actions.	Reference Component and endpoint references.

See Also

• Instagram Graph API