Why does an error appear when authorizing in the instagram API?

Question

API

I can not understand why when accessing the instagram API an error is returned?

I created an application on https://developers.facebook.com/ and generated a token according to the instructions
https://nikolaus.by/blog/integratsii/kak-poluchit-...

My request: https://api.instagram.com /v1/users/search?q=[USERN... TOKEN]
where in USERNAME I specify my name which I take from the user profile



In access_token I specify my token which was received when registering the application in the section for developers https://developers .facebook.com/ which is generated by clicking on the Generate Token button



When I make a request, the following code is returned:

{"meta": {"code": 400, "error_type": "OAuthAccessTokenException", "error_message": "The access_token provided is invalid."}}

error_message: The access_token provided is invalid

In the instagram testers section, I specified my Instagram account via the add Instagram testers button.



The access_token provided is invalid - maybe I'm not passing all the necessary parameters, or I didn't specify all the necessary rights when creating the application?

Could it be that the reason is that my Instagram account is based on a facebook account? In order to log in to Instagram, I first log in to facebook, because of this, the rights of the Instagram user may not be transferred correctly, but this is just an assumption.

Answer 1

Because this is a short-term token and it is valid only for 1 hour. Create a token and exchange it for a long-term one and try again. Read more here