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Dan C
Dan C

Reputation: 41

Passing Token into GET

So I am trying to set up a simple authentication token web page to just get info from a test Instagram account. I have the following what I believe to be the token in the URL header, here is an example of what I get back:

code=a4eb4c7be00045969ff124fe5e840508

I want to pass this into a GET:

https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/media/recent/?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN

where the code I get goes where ACCESS-TOKEN is. Am I right in saying that this is the access token, or is it something else? If it is, how do I get this code into my get statement?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 126

Answers (1)

hermanschutte
hermanschutte

Reputation: 663

That is not the access token. That is the code you need to swap for an access token. Look at the server side flow outlined here: https://instagram.com/developer/authentication/

Step 1: Direct user to this URL: https://api.instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id=CLIENT-ID&redirect_uri=REDIRECT-URI&response_type=code

Step 2: Get the redirect http://your-redirect-uri?code=CODE

This is where you get the code to swop for an access token.

Step 3: You will need to do a POST request to the access_token endpoint:

curl -F 'client_id=CLIENT_ID' \
        -F 'client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET' \
        -F 'grant_type=authorization_code' \
        -F 'redirect_uri=AUTHORIZATION_REDIRECT_URI' \
        -F 'code=CODE' \
        https://api.instagram.com/oauth/access_token

You will then get a valid access token back that you can use in the GET:

https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/media/recent/?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN

Upvotes: 1

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