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Mathäus Jagielski
Mathäus Jagielski

Reputation: 11

Advanced Instagram-Api access for website

I am making my research for an upcoming project:

It is going to be a website you can login via your Instagram account - I need access to the user's name, profile picture and to the people he/she is following.

Is Instagram allowing a website/project to access this information?

Just in case this is a super easy question: I am not a developer and it is very hard for me to work through the Instagram developer website - I highly appreciate any help!!

Thank you very much! Mathew

Upvotes: 1

Views: 456

Answers (2)

Amir Rahimi Farahani
Amir Rahimi Farahani

Reputation: 1590

You will first need to implement the authentication part, and receive an access_token for the user. In fact you will receive user's id, username, and profile photo along with the access_token.

That was the hardest part. Then you may use the access_token to make some API calls to get information such as follows and followed-by.

Upvotes: 1

krisrak
krisrak

Reputation: 12952

You can access Name, profile photo and followers using Instagram APIs.

Here are the 2 APIs you will need:

http://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/users/#get_users

https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/1574083/?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN

http://instagram.com/developer/endpoints/relationships/#get_users_follows

https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/3/follows?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN

Upvotes: 0

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