{"id":46130,"date":"2024-12-11T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46130"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:37:24","slug":"instagram-shuts-down-basic-display-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/11\/instagram-shuts-down-basic-display-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Shuts Down Basic Display API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/12\/06\/instagram-locks-out-developers-of-third-party-consumer-apps\/\">Sarah Perez<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/initialcharge.net\/2024\/12\/instagram-basic-display-api-shutdown\/\">Mike Rockwell<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/12\/06\/instagram-locks-out-developers-of-third-party-consumer-apps\/\"><p>A change to Meta&rsquo;s developer tools is impacting third-party consumer apps that had previously integrated with Instagram. Among those affected by the changes are the Match-owned dating apps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.help.tinder.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115003339243-Connect-Instagram-to-Tinder\">Tinder<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/hingeapp\/comments\/1fcxwet\/hinge_no_longer_will_show_instagram_feeds_on\/\">Hinge<\/a>, which had allowed their users to link their Instagram profiles to their accounts to display their posts to potential matches.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/dayoneapp.com\/\">Day One<\/a>, the journaling app <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/06\/14\/wordpress-com-owner-automattic-acquires-journaling-app-day-one\/\">that WordPress.com owner Automattic bought<\/a> in 2021, is also losing a key piece of its functionality because of the change. The company announced on Friday that it will no longer have the ability to import users&rsquo; Instagram photos and posts into their journals, due to a change that impacts the abilities of developers to access Instagram data programmatically.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/instagram-platform\">Instagram API<\/a> is still available but only works with business accounts.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Perez (via Mike Rockwell): A change to Meta&rsquo;s developer tools is impacting third-party consumer apps that had previously integrated with Instagram. Among those affected by the changes are the Match-owned dating apps Tinder and Hinge, which had allowed their users to link their Instagram profiles to their accounts to display their posts to potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-12-11T20:37:26Z","apple_news_api_id":"291bd1a0-1985-4f60-b500-4f9b23b1ba44","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-12-11T20:37:26Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AKRvRoBmFT2C1AE-bI7G6RA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2160,1541,1286,31,2586,26,1451,50],"class_list":["post-46130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dating-apps","tag-day-one-journal","tag-instagram","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-iosapp","tag-sunset","tag-webapi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46131,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46130\/revisions\/46131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}