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Blagoj Petrov
Blagoj Petrov

Reputation: 295

Cors block while trying to get Instagram access token on client side using react/js

Okay so im trying to get access token im following the main guide provided by facebook app developers which is: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-basic-display-api/getting-started. Im at step: 5, where i try to exchange my code for access_token. I do post request to https://api.instagram.com/oauth/access_token however i get cors blocked with this error:

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://api.instagram.com/oauth/access_token' from origin 'https://localhost' has been blocked by CORS policy: Request header field content-type is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Headers in preflight response.

I literlly tried everything. Adding headers to axios, using ngrok to get an actual secure https: and not self made cert (for dev mode ofc). I also changed the app ouath urls. What could the problem be?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2225

Answers (1)

Blagoj Petrov
Blagoj Petrov

Reputation: 295

Yeap i allowed urls i did everything. I tried https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/https://api.instagram.com/oauth/access_token it didn't work, it says bad request. However i managed to solve it with an extra library called axios-oauth-client: https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios-oauth-client. After implementing this library and instead of doing axios.post(url, data) but using this library and passing the data in there everything works fine and i get the access token. Something with the headers might have been the problem

Upvotes: 0

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