# Instagram API with Facebook Login



The Instagram API with Facebook Login allows [Instagram Professionals](https://help.instagram.com/502981923235522) — Businesses and Creators — to use your app to manage their presence on Instagram. The API can be used to get and publish their media, manage and reply to comments on their media, identify media where they have been @mentioned by other Instagram users, find hashtagged media, and get basic metadata and metrics about other Instagram Businesses and Creators.

## Common Uses

- [Getting](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/instagram-platform/instagram-graph-api/reference/ig-user/media#get-media) and [managing](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/instagram-platform/reference/instagram-media) published photos, videos, and stories
- [Getting basic data about other Instagram Business and Creator accounts](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/instagram-platform/instagram-api-with-facebook-login/business-discovery)
- [Moderating comments and their replies](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/instagram-platform/comment-moderation)
- [Measuring media and profile interaction](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/instagram-platform/insights)
- [Discovering hashtagged media](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/instagram-platform/instagram-api-with-facebook-login/hashtag-search)
- [Discovering @mentions](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/instagram-platform/instagram-api-with-facebook-login/mentions)
- [Content publishing](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/instagram-platform/content-publishing)

## Limitations

- The Instagram API with Facebook Login cannot access Instagram consumer accounts (i.e., non-Business or non-Creator Instagram accounts).
- [Content Publishing](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/instagram-platform/content-publishing) is available to all Instagram Professional accounts, except Stories, which are only available to business accounts.
- [Ordering results](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api#ordering) is not supported
- All endpoints support cursor-based [pagination](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api#paging), but the [User Insights](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/instagram-platform/api-reference/instagram-user/insights) edge is the only endpoint that supports time-based pagination  

## Next Steps

Next, learn about the core concepts, components, and usage requirements for the Instagram API in the [Overview](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/instagram-platform/overview).

## See Also

* [Facebook Graph API](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api)
* [Instagram Professional accounts](https://help.instagram.com/502981923235522)
* [Set Up a Professional Account on Instagram](https://help.instagram.com/502981923235522)
* [Instagram Messaging with Messenger Platform](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/instagram-messaging)