Get public content from Instagram on behalf of User

Question

Now that Instagram have changed there policy and they have disabled the below capabilities:

• Follower List - to read the list of followers and followed-by users Relationships - to follow and unfollow accounts on a user’s behalf Commenting on Public Content
• to post and delete comments on a user’s behalf on public media Likes
• to like and unlike media on a user’s behalf Subscriptions
• to receive notifications when media is posted Users Information
• to search for and view users' public content Some information on Public Content returned through hashtag and location search
• Name, Bio, Comments, Commenters, Follower Count, Following Count, Post Count, and Profile Picture

So now is there a way to search user and get there public content?

I have seached on https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/ but not able to found the replacement.

Answer 1

After the recent change, it is only allowed to get information on Instagram Business Accounts and one must use Facebook's graph API for that.

One should also have an Instagram Business Account to do so. Check out this guide from Facebook:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/getting-started

As to Facebook Graph API calls, below are a few examples:

Get ID of Facebook pages (You will need that to get own Instagram Business Account ID)

/me/accounts

Get your own Instagram Business Account ID

FACEBOOK_Page_ID?fields=instagram_business_account

Get basic account information for any Instagram business account by username (I have used "stonebrewing" as an example)

Your_Instagram_Business_Account_ID?fields=business_discovery.username(stonebrewing){
    biography,website,username,followers_count,media_count
    }

Get a list of posts and some data for any Instagram Business Account

Your_Instagram_Business_Account_ID?fields=business_discovery.username(stonebrewing)
{media{id,comments_count,like_count,media_type, media_url, caption, owner}}