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

Data returned by the API cannot be used to authenticate your app users or log them into your app. If you need an authentication solution we recommend using Facebook Login instead.
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.