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Saad
Saad

Reputation: 309

How can we Follow a person on instagram from our app?

I am building an instagram app in which i will be showing the pics of target user which the user will write. Is it possible to follow the person from my app??

I used this code to like a pic in instagram.

try {
     URL url = new URL(API_URL + "/media/" + instapostid + "/likes?access_token=" + accessToken);
    Log.d(TAG, "Opening URL " + url.toString());
    HttpURLConnection urlConnection;
    urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

    urlConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
    urlConnection.setDoInput(true);
    urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
    urlConnection.connect();

where API_URL is 

private static final String API_URL = "https://api.instagram.com/v1";

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4107

Answers (2)

Mehdi khosravi
Mehdi khosravi

Reputation: 319

Try This : 

TextView txtFollow = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txtFollow);
 txtFollow.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

                @Override
                public void onClick(View arg0) {
                    Uri uri = Uri.parse("http://instagram.com/_u/URL");
                    Intent likeIng = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);

                    likeIng.setPackage("com.instagram.android");

                    try {
                        startActivity(likeIng);
                    } catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
                        startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
                                Uri.parse("http://instagram.com/URL")));
                    }

                }
 });

Upvotes: 2

FoamyGuy
FoamyGuy

Reputation: 46856

Did you look in the Instagram API Docs?

This seems like what you are looking for:

https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/[user-id]/relationship?access_token=[ACCESS-TOKEN]

Modify the relationship between the current user and the target user.

PARAMETERS:
ACCESS_TOKEN    A valid access token.
ACTION  One of: follow/unfollow/block/unblock/approve/deny.

So if you are logged in you should be able to send a POST to this url giving a target user-id an access-token and an action parameter of "follow"

See this page for more

Upvotes: 2

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