How to get an Instagram Access Token

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I m really struggling in how I m meant to get my access token for Instagram   I ve registered a new client and then I used this URL  https   api instagram com oauth authorize  client id CLIENT-ID amp redirect uri REDIRECT-URI amp response type code  to fill in the clients ID and redirect Url   I then was redirected to a page where it displayed a code in the Url but from there I don t have a clue where id then get my access token

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The Instagram API is meant for not only you, but for any Instagram user to potentially authenticate with your app. I followed the instructions on the Instagram Dev website. Using the first (Explicit) method, I was able to do this quite easily on the server.

Step 1) Add a link or button to your webpage which a user could click to initiate the authentication process:

<a href="https://api.instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID&redirect_uri=YOUR_REDIRECT_URI&response_type=code">Get Started</a>

YOUR_CLIENT_ID and YOUR_REDIRECT_URI will be given to you after you successfully register your app in the Instagram backend, along with YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET used below.

Step 2) At the URI that you defined for your app, which is the same as YOUR_REDIRECT_URI, you need to accept the response from the Instagram server. The Instagram server will feed you back a code variable in the request. Then you need to use this code and other information about your app to make another request directly from your server to obtain the access_token. I did this in python using Django framework, as follows:

direct django to the response function in urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import url

from . import views

app_name = 'main'
urlpatterns = [
        url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
        url(r'^response/', views.response, name='response'),
]

Here is the response function, handling the request, views.py:

from django.shortcuts import render
import urllib
import urllib2
import json

def response(request):
    if 'code' in request.GET:
        url = 'https://api.instagram.com/oauth/access_token'
        values = {
            'client_id':'YOUR_CLIENT_ID',
            'client_secret':'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET',
            'redirect_uri':'YOUR_REDIRECT_URI',
            'code':request.GET.get('code'),
            'grant_type':'authorization_code'
        }
        data = urllib.urlencode(values)
        req = urllib2.Request(url, data)
        response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
        response_string = response.read()
        insta_data = json.loads(response_string)
        if 'access_token' in insta_data and 'user' in insta_data:
            #authentication success
            return render(request, 'main/response.html')
        else:
            #authentication failure after step 2
            return render(request, 'main/auth_error.html')
    elif 'error' in req.GET:
        #authentication failure after step 1
        return render(request, 'main/auth_error.html')

This is just one way, but the process should be almost identical in PHP or any other server-side language.

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If you re looking for instructions  check out this article post  And if you re using C  ASP NET  have a look at this repo

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go to manage clinet page in    http   www instagram com developer   set a redirect url  then    use this code to get access token     lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt   lt head gt   lt meta charset  utf-8  gt   lt meta http-equiv  X-UA-Compatible  content  IE edge  gt   lt title gt tst lt  title gt   lt script src     jq js  gt  lt  script gt   lt script type  text javascript  gt           ajax               type   GET               url   https   api instagram com oauth authorize  client id CLIENT-  ID amp redirect uri REDI RECT-URI amp response ty pe code              dataType   jsonp    done function response                   var access   window location hash substring 14                     you have access token in access var                     lt  script gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt     lt  body gt   lt  html gt

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This worked just fine for me   http   jelled com instagram access-token  FYI  I used it in combination with the jQuery Instagram plugin which you ll find here  http   potomak github com jquery-instagram

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Almost all of the replies that people have posted so far only cover how to handle access tokens on the front end  following Instagram s client-side  implicit authentication  procedure  This method is less secure and unrecommended according to Instagram s API docs   Assuming you are using a server  the Instagram docs sort of fail in providing a clear answer about exchanging a code for a token  as they only give an example of a cURL request  Essentially you have to make a POST request to their server with the provided code and all of your app s information  and they will return a user object including user information and the token   I don t know what language you are writing in  but I solved this in Node js with the request npm module which you can find here   I parsed through the url and used this information to send the post request  var code   req url split  code    1    request post      form    client id  configAuth instagramAuth clientID              client secret  configAuth instagramAuth clientSecret              grant type   authorization code               redirect uri  configAuth instagramAuth callbackURL              code  code                  url   https   api instagram com oauth access token         function  err  response  body        if  err          console log  error in Post   err       else        console log JSON parse body                  Of course replace the configAuth stuff with your own information  You probably aren t using Node js  but hopefully this solution will help you translate your own solution into whatever language you are using it in

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If you don t want to build your server side  like only developing on a client side  web app or a mobile app    you could choose an Implicit Authentication    As the document saying   first make a https request with     https   api instagram com oauth authorize  client id CLIENT-ID amp redirect uri REDIRECT-URI amp response type token   Fill in your CLIENT-ID and REDIRECT-URL you designated   Then that s going to the log in page   but the most important thing is how to get the access token after the user correctly logging in   After the user click the log in button with both correct account and password  the web page will redirect to the url you designated followed by a new access token      http   your-redirect-uri access token ACCESS-TOKEN   I m not familiar with javascript   but in Android studio    that s an easy way to add a listener which listen to the event the web page override the url to the new url  redirect event     then it will pass the redirect url string to you   so you can easily split it to get the access-token like   String access token   url split      1    Means to break the url into the string array in each     character   then the access token obviously exists at  1

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I got the same problem before  but I change the url into this  https   api instagram com oauth authorize  client id CLIENT-ID amp redirect uri REDIRECT-URI amp response type token

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By using https   www hurl it  i was able to see this     code   400   error type    OAuthException    error message    Matching code was not found or was already used      so  you have to get new code for every request

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Link to oficial API documentation is http   instagram com developer authentication   Longstory short - two steps   Get CODE  Open https   api instagram com oauth authorize  client id CLIENT-ID amp redirect uri REDIRECT-URI amp response type code with information from http   instagram com developer clients manage   Get access token  curl  -F  client id CLIENT-ID        -F  client secret CLIENT-SECRET        -F  grant type authorization code        -F  redirect uri YOUR-REDIRECT-URI        -F  code CODE        https   api instagram com oauth access token

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Try this   http   dmolsen com 2013 04 05 generating-access-tokens-for-instagram   after getting the code you can do something like   curl -F  client id  your client id   -F  client secret  your secret key   -F  grant type authorization code  -F  redirect uri  redirect url   -F  code  code   https   api instagram com oauth access token

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The easy way that works in 2019  Disable implicit oauth under the security auth and THEN load this   https   api instagram com oauth authorize  client id CLIENT-ID amp redirect uri REDIRECT-URI amp response type token   Specify REDIRECT-URI in your account and type it exactly as specified

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The access token is returned as a URI fragment after you authorize the application to use your Instagram data  It should look something like the following

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100  working this code   lt a id  button  class  instagram-token-button  href  https   api instagram com oauth authorize  client id CLIENT ID amp redirect uri REDIRECT URL amp response type code  gt Click here to get your Instagram Access Token and User ID lt  a gt   lt  PHP   if  isset   GET  code                 code     GET  code              client id   lt  YOUR CLIENT ID  gt             redirect uri   lt  YOUR REDIRECT URL  gt             client secret   lt  YOUR CLIENT SECRET  gt             url  https   api instagram com oauth access token             request fields   array               client id    gt   client id               client secret    gt   client secret               grant type    gt   authorization code                redirect uri    gt   redirect uri               code    gt   code                      ch   curl init            curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   url           curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  true           curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POST  true            request fields   http build query  request fields           curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS   request fields            results   curl exec  ch             results   json decode  results true            access token    results  access token             echo  access token           exit             gt

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