Fetch instagram posts from api?

#1

Hello everyone, I am doing a client’s website and they want to have their Instagram posts automatically appear on their homepage when they make them.
Their competitor has done in and I took a screenshot here.

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So I know it is possible, but I can’t find how to fetch data from instagram specifically. I either find an outdated tutorial or just a general Json/fetch tutorial. Once it’s in JSON format I will be just fine to implement this.
Long story short, How do I fetch posts from an instagram account? Has anyone done this before?
Thanks in advance for your help.

#2

Hello there,

This looks very similar to most APIs, you will need to follow the official documentation here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram/oembed

It is a common workflow of:

  • Register
  • Get access token/s
  • Use the request template to make a request
  • Receive a response with the data you need. Seeing as this is a web app supplying to a web app, over the web, you are almost guaranteed it will be JSON

Hope that helps

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#3

Thanks! This is a step in the right direction

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