How to post pictures to instagram using API

Question

I am building a php application which needs to post the user uploaded picture directly to Instagram  but after a quick search i found that there is no such function in the API    and it feels weird    because they should provide one  I am not sure if there is any other way  except the apps for android and iOS  to upload picture using php  Kindly give me any sort of idea if there is any possibility  I also read this   How do I share a link and photo with Instagram using PHP

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I tried using IFTTT and many other services but all were doing things or post from Instagram to another platform not to Instagram. I read more to found Instagram does not provide any such API as of now.

Using blue stack is again involving heavy installation and doing things manually only.

However, you can use your Google Chrome on the desktop version to make a post on Instagram. It needs a bit tweak.

Open your chrome and browse Instagram.com
Go to inspect element by right clicking on chrome.
From top right corener menu drop down on developer tools, select more tool.
Further select network conditions.
In the network selection section, see the second section there named user agent.
Uncheck select automatically, and select chrome for Android from the list of given user agent.
Refresh your Instagram.com page.

You will notice a change in UI and the option to make a post on Instagram. Your life is now easy. Let me know an easier way if you can find any.

I wrote on https://www.inteligentcomp.com/2018/11/how-to-upload-to-instagram-from-pc-mac.html about it.

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There is no API to post photo to instagram using API   But there is a simple way is that install google extension   User Agent   it will covert your browser to android mobile chrome version   Here is the extension link https   chrome google com webstore detail user-agent-switcher clddifkhlkcojbojppdojfeeikdkgiae utm source chrome-ntp-icon   just click on extension icon and choose chrome for android and open Instagram com

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UPDATE It is now possible   https   developers facebook com docs instagram-api content-publishing  The Content Publishing API is a subset of Instagram Graph API endpoints that allow you to publish media objects  Publishing media objects with this API is a two step process     you first create a media object container  then publish the container on your Business Account

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For users who find this question  you can pass photos to the instagram sharing flow  from your app to the filters screen  on iPhone using iPhone hooks  http   help instagram com 355896521173347 Other than that  there is currently no way in version 1 of the api

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If it has a UI  it has an  quot API quot   Let s use the following example  I want to publish the pic I use in any new blog post I create  Let s assume is Wordpress   Create a service that is constantly monitoring your blog via RSS  When a new blog post is posted  download the picture   Optional  Use a third party API to apply some overlays and whatnot to your pic  Place the photo in a well-known location on your PC or server  Configure Chrome  read above  so that you can use the browser as a mobile  Using Selenium  or any other of those libraries   simulate the entire process of posting on Instagram  Done  You should have it

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Instagram now allows businesses to schedule their posts  using the new Content Publishing Beta endpoints    https   developers facebook com blog post 2018 01 30 instagram-graph-api-updates   However  this blog post - https   business instagram com blog instagram-api-features-updates - makes it clear that they are only opening that API to their Facebook Marketing Partners or Instagram Partners      To get started with scheduling posts  please work with one of our   Facebook Marketing Partners or Instagram Partners    This link from Facebook - https   developers facebook com docs instagram-api content-publishing - lists it as a closed beta       The Content Publishing API is in closed beta with Facebook Marketing   Partners and Instagram Partners only  We are not accepting new   applicants at this time    But this is how you would do it   You have a photo at     https   www example com images bronz-fonz jpg   You want to publish it with the hashtag   BronzFonz    You could use the  user media edge to create the container like this   POST graph facebook com     17841400008460056 media      image url https 3A 2F 2Fwww example com 2Fimages 2Fbronz-fonz jpg amp      caption  23BronzFonz   This would return a container ID  let s say 17889455560051444   which you would then publish using the  user media publish edge  like this   POST graph facebook com    17841405822304914 media publish      creation id 17889455560051444   This example from the docs

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For anyone who is searching for a solution about posting to Instagram using AWS lambda and puppeteer  chrome-aws-lambda   Noted that this solution allow you to post 1 photo for each post only  If you are not using lambda  just replace chrome-aws-lambda with puppeteer  For the first launch of lambda  it is normal that will not work because instagram detects    Suspicious login attempt     Just goto instagram page using your PC and approve it  everything should be fine  Here s my code  feel free to optimize it     instagram js const chromium   require  chrome-aws-lambda     const username   process env IG USERNAME  const password   process env IG PASSWORD   module exports post   async function fileToUpload  caption       const browser   await chromium puppeteer launch           args      chromium args   --window-size 520 700            defaultViewport  chromium defaultViewport          executablePath  await chromium executablePath          headless  false          ignoreHTTPSErrors  true              const page   await browser newPage        await page setUserAgent  Mozilla 5 0  iPhone  CPU iPhone OS 10 3 2 like Mac OS X  AppleWebKit 603 2 4  KHTML  like Gecko  FxiOS 7 5b3349 Mobile 14F89 Safari 603 2 4        await page goto  https   www instagram com     waitUntil   networkidle2              const  buttonLogIn    await page  x  quot   button contains     Log In    quot        if  buttonLogIn            await buttonLogIn click               await page waitFor  input name  quot username quot          await page type  input name  quot username quot     username      await page type  input name  quot password quot     password      await page click  form button type  quot submit quot           await page waitFor 3000       const  buttonSaveInfo    await page  x  quot   button contains     Not Now    quot        if  buttonSaveInfo            await buttonSaveInfo click               await page waitFor 3000       const  buttonNotificationNotNow    await page  x  quot   button contains     Not Now    quot        const  buttonNotificationCancel    await page  x  quot   button contains     Cancel    quot        if  buttonNotificationNotNow            await buttonNotificationNotNow click          else if  buttonNotificationCancel            await buttonNotificationCancel click                await page waitFor  form enctype  quot multipart form-data quot          const inputUploadHandle   await page    form enctype  quot multipart form-data quot   input type file          await page waitFor 5000       const  buttonPopUpNotNow    await page  x  quot   button contains     Not Now    quot        const  buttonPopUpCancel    await page  x  quot   button contains     Cancel    quot        if  buttonPopUpNotNow            await buttonPopUpNotNow click          else if  buttonPopUpCancel            await buttonPopUpCancel click                await page click   data-testid  quot new-post-button quot         await inputUploadHandle uploadFile fileToUpload        await page waitFor 3000       const  buttonNext    await page  x  quot   button contains     Next    quot        await buttonNext click         await page waitFor 3000       await page type  textarea   caption        const  buttonShare    await page  x  quot   button contains     Share    quot        await buttonShare click        await page waitFor 3000        return true         handler js  await instagram post   tmp image png     text     it must be local file path  if it is url  download it to  tmp folder first

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If you read the link you shared  the accepted answer is   You cannot post pictures to Instagram via the API   Instagram have now said this   Now you can post your content using Instagram APIs  New  effects from 26th Jan 2021    https   developers facebook com blog post 2021 01 26 introducing-instagram-content-publishing-api  Hopefully you have some luck here

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Update   Instagram are now banning accounts and removing the images based on this method  Please use with caution     It seems that everyone who has answered this question with something along the lines of it can t be done is somewhat correct  Officially  you cannot post a photo to Instagram with their API  However  if you reverse engineer the API  you can    function SendRequest  url   post   post data   user agent   cookies         ch   curl init        curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   https   i instagram com api v1    url       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT USERAGENT   user agent       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  true       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION  true        if  post            curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POST  true           curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS   post data              if  cookies            curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT COOKIEFILE   cookies txt                      else           curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT COOKIEJAR   cookies txt                response   curl exec  ch        http   curl getinfo  ch  CURLINFO HTTP CODE       curl close  ch       return array  http   response      function GenerateGuid          return sprintf   04x 04x- 04x- 04x- 04x- 04x 04x 04x                mt rand 0  65535                mt rand 0  65535                mt rand 0  65535                mt rand 16384  20479                mt rand 32768  49151                mt rand 0  65535                mt rand 0  65535                mt rand 0  65535       function GenerateUserAgent             resolutions   array  720x1280    320x480    480x800    1024x768    1280x720    768x1024    480x320          versions   array  GT-N7000    SM-N9000    GT-I9220    GT-I9100          dpis   array  120    160    320    240           ver    versions array rand  versions          dpi    dpis array rand  dpis          res    resolutions array rand  resolutions          return  Instagram 4   mt rand 1 2      mt rand 0 2    Android    mt rand 10 11      mt rand 1 3      mt rand 3 5      mt rand 0 5        dpi       res    samsung     ver       ver    smdkc210  en US        function GenerateSignature  data         return hash hmac  sha256    data   b4a23f5e39b5929e0666ac5de94c89d1618a2916       function GetPostData  filename        if   filename            echo  The image doesn t exist    filename        else            post data   array  device timestamp    gt  time                              photo    gt       filename           return  post data               Set the username and password of the account that you wish to post a photo to  username    ig username    password    ig password       Set the path to the file that you wish to post     This must be jpeg format and it must be a perfect square  filename    pictures test jpg       Set the caption for the photo  caption    Test caption       Define the user agent  agent   GenerateUserAgent        Define the GuID  guid   GenerateGuid        Set the devide ID  device id    android-   guid      LOG IN       You must be logged in to the account that you wish to post a photo too    Set all of the parameters in the string  and then sign it with their API key using SHA-256  data     device id      device id     guid      guid     username      username     password      password     Content-Type   application x-www-form-urlencoded  charset UTF-8      sig   GenerateSignature  data    data    signed body    sig     urlencode  data    amp ig sig key version 4    login   SendRequest  accounts login    true   data   agent  false    if strpos  login 1    Sorry  an error occurred while processing this request           echo  Request failed  there s a chance that this proxy ip is blocked     else                   if empty  login 1              echo  Empty response received from the server while trying to login         else                          Decode the array that is returned          obj    json decode  login 1   true            if empty  obj                 echo  Could not decode the response     body            else                  Post the picture              data   GetPostData  filename                post   SendRequest  media upload    true   data   agent  true                    if empty  post 1                       echo  Empty response received from the server while trying to post the image                 else                      Decode the response                   obj    json decode  post 1   true                    if empty  obj                         echo  Could not decode the response                     else                        status    obj  status                         if  status     ok                                Remove and line breaks from the caption                          caption   preg replace    r  n         caption                             media id    obj  media id                             device id    android-   guid                           data      device id      device id     guid      guid     media id      media id     caption     trim  caption      device timestamp     time       source type   5   filter type   0   extra        Content-Type   application x-www-form-urlencoded  charset UTF-8                                 sig   GenerateSignature  data                            new data    signed body    sig     urlencode  data    amp ig sig key version 4                              Now  configure the photo                         conf   SendRequest  media configure    true   new data   agent  true                           if empty  conf 1                                 echo  Empty response received from the server while trying to configure the image                            else                              if strpos  conf 1    login required                                      echo  You are not logged in  There s a chance that the account is banned                                 else                                    obj    json decode  conf 1   true                                    status    obj  status                                     if  status     fail                                         echo  Success                                     else                                       echo  Fail                                                                                                                   else                           echo  Status isn t okay                                                                             Just copy and paste the code above in your text editor  change the few variables accordingly and VOILA  I wrote an article about this and I ve done it many times  See a demo here

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