How to use Facebook Graph API to read Instagram user

Question

I tried to use Graph API Explorer to read an Instagram user.

Visit https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/instagram-user/

I ticked every permission to generate the access token. Also, I linked my Instagram account to Facebook account. However, response still showed as 'Unsupported get request'.

graph api explorer output

Anyone can help? Thanks.

Solution

Facebook has just released a new version of their graph API (v2.10) that now contains a new Instagram API that has new permissions that should allow you to read an Instagram user.

• instagram_basic

• instagram_manage_comments (optional)

• instagram_manage_insights (optional)

However, these permissions are currently limited to Instagram business users that also have a Facebook business account with an ad account linked to it.

Comments

[user805981]

so we need an ad account in order to use the API? We must pay to use?