Access to the Instagram API - who figured it out?

Question

API

Folks, last October Instagram made it harder to access their API.
Specifically, at the moment I do not quite understand the difference between a business account and a simple account.
But the most difficult thing to understand is if my profile represents a company, but I am not its head, then from which profile would it be correct to send a request for access - from my own or boss to register on Facebook? Now they have everything through facebook-api.

And hell you will find a button on them - contact support.

Answer 1

You need to:
1) Create a fb application
2) Get permissions for the necessary actions (some are given immediately upon request, some require a whole bunch of gestures, such as: make a video where this feature is involved and improve the user experience of your users interaction with fb, a detailed verbal description etc ).
3) Wait until they give the appropriate permission
4) Connect fb sdk or write your requests to curl - in short, implement the logic.
Simply put, there is a lot of crap, a minimum of exhaust, since through the API they give less data than through the native FB report. There are also restrictions on the length, frequency and complexity of requests to api ... In short, sheer insanity.

Answer 2

There is always an alternative, you can also use a private API.
NodeJS Instagram private API
https://github.com/dilame/instagram-private-api/
Still available for PHP. But not in the public domain.

Answer 3

What do you need to do? Receive news or photos?